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Chapter 7 Preparing for Online Capacity Expansion 11. If there is more than one HP NetRAID-1M or 2M adapter installed (including any integrated HP NetRAID controller), press Esc to return to the Objects menu. Enable virtual sizing on the logical drives of all adapters as necessary. 12. To exit, press Esc until you see the Exit box, and choose Yes. II. Start Windows NT and Enter the Disk Administrator Start Windows NT, and enter the Disk Administrator. Here you see the new logical drive shown as a single unpartitioned/unformatted drive of 500 GB. Although there might be only 12 GB of real storage space on the logical drive, the Online Capacity Expansion feature creates a virtual drive of 500 GB. III. Partition and Format the Drive How you partition and format a drive depends on where you installed Windows NT. • For drives that do not contain the Windows NT operating system, see "Partition and Format Drives that do not Contain Windows NT" below. • If Windows NT was installed on an HP NetRAID disk array, see "Partition and Format a Drive that Contains Windows NT" below. Partition and Format Drives that do not Contain Windows NT Follow these instructions for drives that do not contain Windows NT. 1. Create a partition equal to (or less than) the real storage capacity. In our ongoing example, you would create a 12 GB partition. NOTE If you try to create a partition that is larger than the real storage capacity, the format operation will generate this message: Warning: NT was unable to complete the format. 2. Format the partition. 93

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Chapter 7
Preparing for Online Capacity Expansion
93
11.
If there is more than one HP NetRAID-1M or 2M adapter installed
(including any integrated HP NetRAID controller), press
Esc
to return to
the Objects menu. Enable virtual sizing on the logical drives of all
adapters as necessary.
12.
To exit, press
Esc
until you see the Exit box, and choose
Yes
.
II.
Start Windows NT and Enter the Disk Administrator
Start Windows NT, and enter the Disk Administrator.
Here you see the new logical drive shown as a single unpartitioned/unformatted
drive of 500 GB. Although there might be only 12 GB of real storage space on
the logical drive, the Online Capacity Expansion feature creates a virtual drive of
500 GB.
III. Partition and Format the Drive
How you partition and format a drive depends on where you installed
Windows NT.
•
For drives that do not contain the Windows NT operating system, see
"Partition and Format Drives that do
not
Contain Windows NT" below.
•
If Windows NT was installed on an HP NetRAID disk array, see
"Partition and Format a Drive that Contains Windows NT" below.
Partition and Format Drives that do
not
Contain Windows NT
Follow these instructions for drives that do not contain Windows NT.
1.
Create a partition equal to (or less than) the real storage capacity.
In our ongoing example, you would create a 12 GB partition.
NOTE
If you try to create a partition that is larger than the real
storage capacity, the format operation will generate this
message:
Warning: NT was unable to complete
the format.
2.
Format the partition.