mainesysadmin.com » win2k3 http://mainesysadmin.com SysAdmin in Maine Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 HowTo – create a volume greater than 2 terabytes in win2k3 (min sp1) http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/10/24/howto-create-a-volume-greater-than-2-terabytes-in-win2k3-min-sp1/ http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/10/24/howto-create-a-volume-greater-than-2-terabytes-in-win2k3-min-sp1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:59:12 +0000 Tom http://mainesysadmin.com/?p=150 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.

  1. Open Windows Disk management.
  2. Click Action -> Rescan disks to make your new disk appear, if greater than 2tb it will appear as 2 partitions on 1 disk
  3. Right click on the disk and initialize the disk
  4. Open a windows command prompt
  5. type “diskpart”
  6. type “list disk”
  7. select the new disk that’s over 2tb
  8. convert gpt
  9. 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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