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I have a HP Proliant server with am e200i controller &nbsp;and Windows 2003 r2. I have a RAID 5 array that had three 750 gb drives and I replaced them one at a time with three 2 tb drives, each time allowing the array to rebuild. I am trying to expand the size of the logical drive to the maximum using the HP tool and as status I see the message &quot;Background Parity Initializing/Queued&quot; and manwhile my logical drive appears with the size before the expansion. <br />
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I have a HP Proliant server with am e200i controller  and Windows 2003 r2. I have a RAID 5 array that had three 750 gb drives and I replaced them one at a time with three 2 tb drives, each time allowing the array to rebuild. I am trying to expand the size of the logical drive to the maximum using the HP tool and as status I see the message "Background Parity Initializing/Queued" and manwhile my logical drive appears with the size before the expansion. 

Any advice?

Background Parity Initializing/Queued on HP e200i

I have a HP Proliant server with am e200i controller  and Windows 2003 r2. I have a RAID 5 array that had three 750 gb drives and I replaced them one at a time with three 2 tb drives, each time allowing the array to rebuild. I am trying to expand the size of the logical drive to the maximum using the HP tool and as status I see the message &quot;Background Parity Initializing/Queued&quot; and manwhile my logical drive appears with the size before the expansion. 

Any advice?

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