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I installed a new hard drive in a RAID 5 Array in a IBM Xseries 345 Server.
I am running Windows 2000 SP4 all updates since end of March. The disk
manager sees the unallocated space. When I use Diskpart.exe to add the
unallocated space to my data volume I get the error message "diskpart failed
to extend the volume"

The volume shows the space has been but the file system still has the old
value for the volume space. I did some research and heard of a utility
called fsextend which is supposed to fix this problem.

By the way I did use the diskpart.exe utility successfully before on this
very same server.

Any help is appreciated.
 
The volume shows the space has been but the file system still has the old
value for the volume space. I did some research and heard of a utility
called fsextend which is supposed to fix this problem.
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did you try
DISKPART> extend filesystem

the "extend filesystem" is a undocumented function
If this command does not fix it, then open a case with Microsoft and get
fsextend, I do not think this tool is publicly available.

HTH,
Edwin.
 
Thank you for the idea. Actually about an hour ago I found out what the
cause was. The IBM RAID Manager software was the cause. I was having some
issues with the server and disabled the IBM Raid manager service and it
worked after that.

Although I will remember your idea since I do use Diskpart.exe quite
frequently.
 
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