Gen8 micro server >2tb partition?

edscdk

edscdk

edscdk

Soldato
Joined
17 Jul 2008
Posts
7,391
I have a pair of mirrored 3TB drives, I have a 200gb boot partition, is there a way to create a 2.8tb (the rest of the drive) partition?

Best I can think of is reinstall OS on a smaller drive pair and then ill be able to create the 3tb partition?
 
You mean like this?

jub4bIL
http://imgur.com/jub4bIL

Make sure the drive partition format is GPT rather than MBR, otherwise you will be limited to 2.2TB.
 
Hi guys, silly questions here but i put a 3TB drive in my Gen 8 home media server yesterday, turned it on and it doesn't show up in Windows. After reading i see i need the drive to be in GPT format to use 3TB.

Ideally i would like a 2TB and a 1TB partition on this drive.

Is there a way i can format this drive and get it working over remote destktop? i dont have a monitor at home at the moment so cant even see if the HDD is detected in BIOS.

The disc doesn't show in disc management.

Could any one point me to a guide of how to format this drive and how to get it work?

Thankyou
 
Oh i never tired that, I just had a look and this is all it gives me. So it hasn't been detected.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 1862 GB 0 B
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom