Have you checked disk management to see if there just is a large unpartitioned space?

Also; you can't boot to a virtual disk over 2TB.

So I'd suggest making a 50 or 100GB virtual disk (not a partition) in the raid 5 for the boot drive and then once in the OS make a 2nd virtual disk with the remaining space as a data drive.

Once this 2nd virtual disk is created, go to disk management, right click the disk to initialize it (if the wizard didn't already walk you through that), then right click the disk (not the partition area) and select to convert to GPT (requires 2003 SP1 or later). After this you can make the 2nd disk a single large partition if wanted.

I have followed the instructions for raid 5, 4 times. Each time I go into Computer management and the unallocated space is not there. I went into the Dell server adminstrator and tried to create a 2nd virtual disk ..The create virutual disk wizard  failed to launch message appears.

 

In Dell open manage I show:

 

Virual Disk 0 Raid 5 

 

Clicking on Virtual disk 0 a couple times I can see the page with Green check marks and

Physical Disk 0.0.0 -1.0.6  SAS 135.12 GB All online

 

One hot spare in ready state 

 

I know this should be simple and I have to be missing a simple step. 

 

 

Thanks 

Anyone?

Can you take a screen shot of what you see in disk management and the Open Manage software and post to the forum?  If you can't post it, you can send it to me in an email.