Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. File Services and Storage. Sign in to vote. Hi All, Let me say first thanks for he help in advance. I have read quite a bit that it can be done but with no explicit instructions. Unfortunately this does not help me. Simply Put when I am installing and get to the menu in regards to creating a partition I am limited to 2T and the rest is unnallocated and I am not able to extend or create another partition with that left over space It becomes useless.
I have installed Server on a primary partition of 2t with the rest of my 3. I was unsuccesful in trying to make use of the rest of that space People may configure a hardware RAID container in the past, but instead a few hard disks now. With the advent of a hard drive larger than 2TB, many users want to use a partition larger than 2TB since software and apps nowadays become bigger and bigger and eat up storage space fast. Not all machines support a partition larger than 2TB at the beginning.
Some changes must be made. The MBR is an old-style which has limits that it only allows for a partition size less than 2 TB and allows for only 4 primary partitions. If the disk you want to convert contains the installed system, please make sure that your system firmware is using UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
The GPT boot function is available on your computer or server. And your Windows operating system must be one of the following:. I've got a simple WHSv1 machine at home that I built mostly for drive extender and computer backups, as well as being the general server. It's nice but pretty sluggish especially in writes, and I've always heard DE might be part of it. I'd like to upgrade sometime and haven't decided if I care enough about DE or if I should just run a single drive and increase my backup schedule.
My home system is a WHSv1 as well. It has never given me any trouble. Even during storage balancing. I don't do a lot of heavy writes to it, so maybe that's why - the storage is pretty static at this point.
I mostly use it for computer backups, file storage, and for SubSonic music streaming. I've got it on a gigabit switch with a gigabit NIC, and copying something like a. Reading is just fine, I can copy from it to the desktop at 60 or It doesn't see a ton of action, but it's a bit frustrating when I'm doing stuff. I've always just put up with it since it does its job very well. It's been a while since I clocked any of my copy speeds, but I think my write speed is faster than that.
I run all gig in my house. We built it 5 years ago, and now adays all the phone lines they put in is now CAT5e, so I paid a little extra to have them do CAT6, just in case. The answer after much digging and experimentation is EFI.
Extensible Firmware Interface. It is built into the bios. You must have an EFI enabled bios and boot device. Out of the box, server R2 has to be patched and a new installation DVD must be built. There are about 3 KB articles that describe the process:. So the bottom line is that you cannot at least not in a way that I have found access drive space beyond 2TB on a bootable partition without EFI.
So your 60GB OS partition, and separate data partition won't work if the data partition isn't the bootable partition?
What I'm looking at is having the OS on a completely separate drive and controller than the data. Well, once Newegg gets my replacement drives another saga shipped to me, I'll try it and let you know what happens. There was no hint like that so I added a small system drive for the OS.
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