I have Dell PowerEdge Server T310 built with a Raid5 (3 x 300gb)
Windows Server 2008 R2
SAS controller PERC H700.
I have recently added a 4th drive 300gb thru Dell’s application “Openmanage”. The whole procedure went well.
Now I want to merge the unallocated space with the Datapart1 (see below), the system does not permit to extend volume, and when I try to format the unallocated space I get an error saying “the disk already contains the maximum number of partition”.
My question is;
How do I do it?
Do I have to copy all data from Datapart1 to a spare drive, delete the partition and recreate a new one using all the space available?
Or is there another way?
Tried to post snap shot of disk, but I don’t have enough reputation, sorry.
39 mb no name – (OEM Partition),
3.00 gb Recovery – (System, Active, Primary Partition),
40.00 gb OS (C:) – (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition),
514.71 gb Datapart1 (D:) – (Logical Drive),
278.88 gb Unallocated
Best Answer
Finally, the only way I was able to merged the extra space was;
The reason I had to do it this way is because Windows Server 2008 R2 does not let you have more than 4 partitions no matter what software you use i.e.: (partition magic). So the extra space I had created was unallocated and I could not initialize it or expand the existing partition.