HowTo – create a volume greater than 2 terabytes in win2k3 (min sp1)
For a task that is REALLY easy it took a more googling than I had anticipated to come up with the solution. Once your volume has been delivered to the server it is important to initialize the disk but not to create any partitions.
- Open Windows Disk management.
- Click Action -> Rescan disks to make your new disk appear, if greater than 2tb it will appear as 2 partitions on 1 disk
- Right click on the disk and initialize the disk
- Open a windows command prompt
- type “diskpart”
- type “list disk”
- select the new disk that’s over 2tb
- convert gpt
- Now from windows Disk Management you should see a single disk greater than 2tb
Information on the diskpart utility: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/300415
The most important prereqs include Windows 2k3 is up to at least sp1 and that no partitions exist on the disk.
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