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Can't get all of my RAID1 drive space
Hello,
Very nice forum here!
I've installed W7 pro on a 50GB partition on a RAID1 array but it seems that I can't make any new partitions on the remaining unallocated disk space. My array is a pair of WD RE3 500GB drives, so there's at least another 440GB available.
The problem might have started when I made the partition originally in the BIOS RAID setup. I set the size to 50GB there but it wouldn't let me make another one. I figured I'd be able to do that in W7.
Now I'm thinking I should have set the partition size in the BIOS RAID setup to be the whole 500GB and then during the install of W7 set the boot partition to 50GB.
To top it all off, the 100MB system reserved partition ended up on my 160GB backup drive.
I'm about to just start over again with the backup drive disconnected. Any suggestions?
Thanks