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

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I figured out how to get windows to see it, and it is a partition now. &nbsp;If I want to expand that LUN on the SAN side how do I get wondows to see that was expanded and get it to expand on the partition?
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I figured out how to get windows to see it, and it is a partition now.  If I want to expand that LUN on the SAN side how do I get wondows to see that was expanded and get it to expand on the partition?

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Could try changing the partition / disk to Dynamic.<br />
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See MS doc and review:<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424</a>
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Could try changing the partition / disk to Dynamic.

See MS doc and review:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424]

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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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