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I have a Dell 2850 and I want to install Windows 2008 Server. Problem is that my C drive only has 16GB of space. The requirements say I need at least 20. I have an open bay for a drive. If I put in another drive, how can I add that to the array and them make it only for the C drive? what do I do?

Thank you.

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I don't want to remove any drives. I just want to add a new one to the existing array. Can I do that and make sure that new drive is for the logical C drive?

Khaled
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johnny
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The PERC disc controller allows you to reconfigure a RAID and add a disk. To use the free space from the rebuilded virtual disk you will need to resize/move the current volumes. For this you can use GParted Live.

Mircea Vutcovici
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  1. you have to make sure that the drive is the same as the ones that are currently in the system

  2. boot your system into the RAID controller BIOS. after the POST screen you'll get another screen telling you the status of the RAID controller, and it usually tells you to press F# to load configuration

  3. Identify the drives you are working with in the RAID controller configuration, remove the current array, then rebuild the array using the new drives. It's kind of difficult to give you more instruction beyond that.

sauerkrause
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