Doubts about Definition and Configuration of the Disk Mana..

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Rosas, Socorro del Carmen wrote:
> I have a Server already installed with Windows 2000 Server Operative System
> and it's on production now. That Server has an array of three disk of 10 GB
> of capacity per everyone, those one are Pluggable Universal hard Drive, so I
> defined an array and designed it as Primary Partion and that Partition is of
> 33 GB in total. Now I bought a new Pluggable Universal Hard Drive of 72GB,
> and inserted the Hard Disk into the Server Hardware, I need to configure and
> define that hard disk through the Disk Management as additional or another
> Primary Partition of 72 GB with other Drive Letter, How could I do that? May
> you explain that in details please?
> Further Information, The Server is a HP Proliant DL380 that works with
> Pluggable Universal Hard Drives. The Operative System is Windows 2000 Server
> in English.


disk management is pretty much self-explanitory

simply format the new drive as a primary partition
and assign which ever drive letter you wish

note: since your first three removable drives are defined as an array
you must never do anything to change that unless you have all your data
backed up