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Can't add partition if it's on the same harddisk as OS

webmarckwebmarck
edited October 2011 in DrivePool
I have WHS 2011 installed on a 2 GB disk and that leaves 1.8 GB of free space to add to the pool - but I can't get it to show up in the list on the Hard Drive Pooling tab no mater if I format it or leave it as raw space.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a rule that permite the pool to include partitions on the same disk as the OS

(Use v.1.0.4074)
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  • hopesterhopester
    Member
    Looking at the Hard Drive Pooling tab it does say 'System or boot drives cannot be part of the drive pool' so I guess thats the answer and you are doing nothing wrong.
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  • ShaneShane
    Resident Guru
    WHS 2011 creates a C: (system) and D: (data) partition on the first drive. It should be possible to add the D: partition to the pool (and just to be sure, I did it before posting this).

    So if you can't add WHS's data partition on the first drive to the pool, something is wrong.
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  • webmarckwebmarck
    Member
    I have been looking abit deeper into this and I think I have found the reason.

    If I look in the Disk Management view in the Server Manager console i can see that both the 100Mb hidden boot partition and the C:\ (OS installed here) drive are of the type Dynamic - all other volumes are of the type Basic.
    And when I create a new partition on the same disk as c:\ it's always Dynamic.

    Think the only way I can fix this is to reinstall WHS :-(
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  • webmarckwebmarck
    Member
    I did a reinstallation last night - my boot and C drive are no longer dynamic and that fixed the problem.

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  • hopesterhopester
    Member
    Glad you got it sorted.

    Alex maybe the wording above could be changed from drives to partions or volumes?
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