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    Need to reformat....what?? Where's my stuff!!!!!

    So Imma need some help here please. I recently expanded my 1.5TB raid5 array to a 3.5TB array but found out the hard way that I needed to back up and reformat with GPT partitions. So I did. I packed up 1.5TB of data, erased the array re formatted and converted to GPT in windows Disk...
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    RAID5 drive went TOO big for the system to see

    So the answer seems to be here: http://www.carltonbale.com/2006/04/expanding-the-capacity-of-my-media-server/#comment-2755 Read the post and comments above. Lots of peps in the same situation. Setting the partitions in GPT seems to be the only way. Which means I'm screwed since i have to back up...
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    RAID5 drive went TOO big for the system to see

    PS: this is not my boot drive....
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    RAID5 drive went TOO big for the system to see

    Thanks mike, But correct me if I'm wrong, didn't SP1 fix the 2TB barrier? http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/LUN_SP1.mspx In any event my system can see the 2TB and can see the 1.5TB it's just that the 1.5 is not usable I cant even partition it. it just resides there in Disk Management...
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    RAID5 drive went TOO big for the system to see

    I'm having the same issue but I'm running WS 2k3.... I migrated my existing 1.5TB Raid 5 array to a 3.5TB array; but SEEMS 2k3 only sees a 2TB partition with 1.5TB's of unallocated space. I tried diskpart.exe but it just says that the OS...
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