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From disk management has a partition been created, a logical drive created and formated?
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From disk management has a partition been created, a logical drive created and formated?

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Right click on the space, &nbsp;Create new logical partion, choose drive letter, choose file system and format option.<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000</a><br />
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Right click on the space,  Create new logical partion, choose drive letter, choose file system and format option.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000]

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I got it to see the drive now. &nbsp;If I want to expand that partitio by making it bigger on the lun how do I get windows to see that?
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I got it to see the drive now.  If I want to expand that partitio by making it bigger on the lun how do I get windows to see that?

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Is the disk created as a basic disk or dynamic?<br />
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Dynamic Disk info (XP)<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424</a>
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Is the disk created as a basic disk or dynamic?

Dynamic Disk info (XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424]

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its basic right now, there is no data on it so it could be dynamic if it has to be
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its basic right now, there is no data on it so it could be dynamic if it has to be

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We just deployed a SAN and a blade server. &nbsp;We have an instance of server 2003 running on one of the blades. &nbsp;We created a new LUN on the SAN to use as a D drive to store data on. &nbsp;The server sees that its there but it wont let me five it a drive letter. &nbsp;It does not have NTFS on it at all so I assume it has not been formated yet. &nbsp;How do I get that formated to use the space to store data?
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We just deployed a SAN and a blade server.  We have an instance of server 2003 running on one of the blades.  We created a new LUN on the SAN to use as a D drive to store data on.  The server sees that its there but it wont let me five it a drive letter.  It does not have NTFS on it at all so I assume it has not been formated yet.  How do I get that formated to use the space to store data?

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