Virtual Disk Drive - 2008? 2TB limit?

[boe]

Hello,

I set up a copy of 2008 on my home PC and everything seemed normal to me but
then again I don't have a disk array on my home PC. I have a dell 2900
with a 6i controller. It was set for RAID 5 when I got it with two virtual
drives in the controller set up. I wanted to be able to partition it any
way I wanted.

The server has about 3.5 TB usable space. I deleted the virtual disk in
the controller set up and installed a single 3.5 TB vitual drive. When I
installed Windows 2008, it saw the single drive and I created a 75GB
partition for the OS. When I finished installing the 2008 and I logged in
for the first time, I went to disk management. It shows the C Partition,
and two unused partitions - one about 2 TB, and the other about 1.5TB. Is
there a way to have it create a 3.5 TB partition with no break in it? I'm
pretty sure I could have it extend the partition 2 TB to the 1.5 TB but I'm
not sure why the partion is there or if I shouldn't have used a virtual
drive to begin with.

I don't want to go any further in the install till I know what is the nature
of 2008.

I had originally tried not creating a virtual drive in the array controller
utilty on boot up but when I had no virtual drive, Windows 2008 didn't have
any drive for me to install on.

Thanks

 

[boe]

Re: Virtual Disk Drive - 2008? 2TB limit?

It looks like 2008 still has the 2TB limit. I'll create a small array for
the boot OS and then create a larger one which I can convert to a guid
partition GPT supports larger partitions but not if they are the boot OS for
windows.

"boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I set up a copy of 2008 on my home PC and everything seemed normal to me
> but then again I don't have a disk array on my home PC. I have a dell
> 2900 with a 6i controller. It was set for RAID 5 when I got it with two
> virtual drives in the controller set up. I wanted to be able to
> partition it any way I wanted.
>
> The server has about 3.5 TB usable space. I deleted the virtual disk in
> the controller set up and installed a single 3.5 TB vitual drive. When
> I installed Windows 2008, it saw the single drive and I created a 75GB
> partition for the OS. When I finished installing the 2008 and I logged
> in for the first time, I went to disk management. It shows the C
> Partition, and two unused partitions - one about 2 TB, and the other about
> 1.5TB. Is there a way to have it create a 3.5 TB partition with no break
> in it? I'm pretty sure I could have it extend the partition 2 TB to the
> 1.5 TB but I'm not sure why the partion is there or if I shouldn't have
> used a virtual drive to begin with.
>
> I don't want to go any further in the install till I know what is the
> nature of 2008.
>
> I had originally tried not creating a virtual drive in the array
> controller utilty on boot up but when I had no virtual drive, Windows 2008
> didn't have any drive for me to install on.
>
> Thanks
>