Resizing partition

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Larry

Hi,

I have used GPartEd to resize a Vista partition to fill the entire drive.
Vista was in first partition, XP in second. Deleted XP and extended Vista
partition.

All is well, according to Disk Manager and DISKPART. Both utilities report
one 130 gig partition. However, Vista still insists that it is on a 70 gig
partition. How can I persuade Vista to see the entire disk?

The disk is a SATA raid set. I broke the RAID set, re-partitioned, and
rebuilt the RAID set. Everything runs fine, but the Computer GUI still
reports a 70 gig C: drive.

Thanks,

Larry
 
I'll answer my own question in case it might be useful to someone else.

I fixed the problem as follows:

1. Broke the RAID set. This gave me C: drive of 70 gig and a G: drive of 130
gig.
2. Performed a full system backup of C: and G: drives. I used a USB drive as
a target drive.
3. Booted from installation DVD and performed full restore of C: and G:
4. Booted from G: drive (set boot drive in BIOS). Crashed first time, booted
ok in safe mode, saw 120 gig partition.
5. Rebuilt RAID set. Told RAID configurator to rebuild disks, using disk
holding the G: partition as the source.
6. Booted Vista, now RAID1 with 130 gig partition.

Notes: RAID is hardware RAID using NVIDIA chipset. SATA drives.
 
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