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    Help with RAID-1 and upgraded HDs not showing correct size

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by abstravel, Jun 10, 2010.

  1. abstravel

    abstravel Notebook Consultant

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    Why is my "Local Disk" not showing the correct size?

    I have a 9262. Originally with 2-200GB HDs. Later I changed one HD for a 320GB HD.
    Yesterday, I bought 2-640GB HDs.
    Today, I upgraded the remaining 200GB to a 640GB, and after mirroring to the larger HD, I changed the 320GB to another 640GB HD.
    Now I have 2-640GB HDs in RAID-1.

    Problem is, when I check the "local disk (C)" it shows that my HD as seen by the OS is 186GB (200GB) with only 61GB of free space?

    Under Intel Matrix Storage Console, I've done the "verify and repair volume data", and no problems.
    If I check my Array, it shows that the size is 1192.3GB with 596.1GB free space.

    Why is my "Local Disk" not showing the correct size? Is there something that I missed when rebuilding to the larger HDs?
     
  2. theriko

    theriko Ronin

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    Because you have restored off a smaller disk, you need to extend the partition in windows. Right click on 'Computer' and select manage, then go down to the 'disk management' tab, right click on your 'C:' drive and select 'extend volume'
     
  3. abstravel

    abstravel Notebook Consultant

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    Theriko,

    Thanks for the info, but it did not help. I did as you explained, and after the "extend volume" it now says that C: is 298.09GB (172GB free space).
    I even restarted the laptop, just in case.
    My partition is only showing 298GB. Something, somewhere is still dictating the old partition, but I can't seem to find it or fix it.
    I turned on Paragon Drive Backup 10.0 to see if there were any "deleted" partitions, but none could be found.

    I should have C: partition showing about 596.1GB (from two mirrored RAID-1, 640GB drives), and about 470GB free space).

    Any other idea?

    Regards,

    - CORRECTED -

    For Sager laptops using RAID-1, if the system does not automatically adjust/extend the hard drive capacity, adter installing larger hard drives, the way to fix it is...
    1.Restart computer, enter CTRL-I, take all the hard drives out of RAID
    2.Laptop will restart and then advise to restart to complete changes.
    3.Once it restarts, the hard drives will be all NON-RAID.
    4.Right click on computer icon, select manage, to to disk management, select each drive and right click to extend volume. Do extend volume for each drive, wait for system to adjust and you should now have full capacity on each new drive.
    5. Open Intel Matrix Storage Console, select the first NON-RAID drive and rebuild the RAID-1 system. It should take a couple of hours from beginning to end.

    Regards,