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how to remove physical drive from logical drive
I have a Poweredge 4300 (HSF73) on which I did a new installation of Windows Server 2003, which went well and I'm not using it for anything yet. Problem is I didn't have the partitioning the way I wanted it before installing the OS, so I'm looking for advice on how to make changes now.
It has 3 physical 9GB drives, on the PERC II controller doing RAID 5, with 1 Logical drive.
The primary partition is only 2 GB, and the balance 15 GB is in a second partition. This is a hangover from how it was partitioned when it was running NT 4.0 OS.
I want to remove 1 physical drive so I can use it in another machine because I don't need much disk in this one.
With the remaining 2 physical drives, I want to just have them mirrored (RAID 1), with a 4GB partition for the OS and the balance of space in a second partition.
I'm not sure how to proceed.
It's fine if I have to change the RAID configuration and partitions and then reinstall the OS, because I'm not using it yet. I'm just not sure what tool to use and I don't want to ruin the server for good.
Would I use the PERC BIOS Configuration Utility?
In there, would I do the "Force Offline" on the third disk, so I could remove it from the array, then which option would I use to change from RAID 5 to RAID 1?
Sorry to be using old stuff!
L3_servertech
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Posted June 1st, 2007 15:00