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Windows SBS 2003 Trying to use unallocated disk space....

I have 869.93 gigabytes of unallocated disk space on a raid 5 server configuration. How do I utilize this remainin space? I am currently using 565 gigabytes of disk space. There are 4 500 gigabyte SATAu drives on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server.
When I click on the space it does not give me options to format, partition or assign a drive letter.

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ezekuel

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rickpary

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Well now that you offer that, I would like to extend the operating system drive to a bigger size and extend one of the partition sizes if that is possible without too much work?

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I currently have on Disk O: 39 mg healthy EISA config, C partition 25.77 gig NTFS healthy, Z partition 200 gig NTFS healthy, S partition 300 gig NTFS healthy, S partition 300 gig NTFS healthy & 869.93 gig unallocated

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I found that I could not extend the C: partition or any partiton unless it was next to the unalocated space....
weird...

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I believe you can extend the boot drive using Dell's Extpart.exe. If your PowerEdge is under warranty they will walk you through it however they will explain they are not responsible and leave the actual expanding up to you. They will send you a link for the extpart.exe utility.

If you're not under warranty you can download here.

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noxcho

You can do easily the task with Paragon Partition Manager 12 Server www.partition-manager.com or with free version of Parted Magic boot CD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/
If you take and load here a screen shot of your Windows Disk Management then I will give you step by step guidance.

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How do I post a screenshot here?

noxcho

There a an option under respond window - attach file. Use it simply to attach png or jpg file.

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Still working on this...

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Still working on this...