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Unable to create New Simple Volume of a 3.7 TB RAID disk
I just recently did a Windows 7 re install so I would have a clean slate when using a new raid setup. (LSI 9211-8i with (4) 2 TB WD Red) I am new to RAID's but everything seams to be working fine. I used 4, 2 TB WD Reds in a RAID 10 and got the expected 3.7 TB of space. I run my OS on a small 120 GB SSD and put all my user accounts on a different drive as shown here.
User Profiles - Create and Move During Windows 7 Installation
So to get back to the problem at hand, when I went to create a new simple volume initially to do this it would only allow me to put 2048 GB in a volume. Not a big deal because I though that I would be able to set up a new simple with the rest of it later. The problem that I'm wondering about is that now that it is all set up and running I can use the rest of the space. When I am in disk management and right click on the unallocated space everything is grayed out except for Properties and Help.
I'm not sure what to do about this . Although I don't need the s[ace right now I don't like the idea of 1.5 TB sitting there unusable. If I'm going to do something about this I would rather do it now than later.
-Josh