unable to see the entire volume in Windows 2003

[tempp]

Hi,

I am connecting a Windows 2003 server (32bit) to a S1520 coraid. The coraid unit has a single etherdrive defined with 4.5T capacity. When I used the StarPort driver to add the etherdrive to the system, Windows saw the device as one single disk with 2 volume, 2T and 2.1T. I was able to use the first volume, but not the second one (unable to create partition and etc). I was unable to convert the disk from basic to dynamic.

My goal is to be able use the entire etherdrive as a single volume and I am not sure if this problem is more on the Windows side or on the StarPort driver itself.

I am using StarPort 3.5 build 0x20070707.

Thanks

tempp

[anton (staff)]

See this one:

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/vie ... php?t=1103

[tempp]

Do you mean that even the AoE driver only see 2 2T volume in the disk management console, I still can use it (disk management console) or diskpart to create a single partition using the entire size of the etherdrive?

Thanks

[anton (staff)]

No. What I wanted to say is "Upgrade your Windows to R2 SP1 or x64 as only they do understand 2TB+ volumes".

[tempp]

According to the MS documentation, Windows 2003 SP1 (non R2) supports GPT drive. I will give that a try before I try to upgrade the server to R2.

Thanks again

[Val (staff)]

According to the MS documentation, Windows 2003 SP1 (non R2) supports GPT drive. I will give that a try before I try to upgrade the server to R2.

Thanks again

You are right, Windows 2003 SP1 does support GPT drives.