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7. You will be asked to format the partition/volume. If you don’t want to format the
new drive at this time, select Donotformatthisdrive. Otherwise, select the
file system, allocation unit size, and volume label. Formatting is discussed in
6.5.4, “Formatting partitions or volumes” on page 115. Click Next to continue.
8. Review your selections and click Finish to create and/or format the drive.
9. After formatting completes, the drive can be accessed and used. In our
example, the new drive shows up as the C:\DynaDisk folder.
Figure 103. New drive, added as a path in another drive
6.5.4 Formatting partitions or volumes
Partitions and dynamic volumes can be formatted in either FAT, FAT32, or NTFS.
CDFS is only used for CD-ROMs. We recommend you use NTFS for all your
drives, unless you have a dual-boot system with a non-Windows NT and
non-Windows 2000 operating system.
To format a partition or volume, right-click it and choose Format... from the
context menu. Follow the instructions on the screen and provide a file system,
allocation size, and volume label.
6.5.5 Example: Adding ServeRAID disk storage without rebooting
These steps show how you can add a ServeRAID adapter and connected disk
enclosure without having to reboot Windows 2000:
1. Physically add the disks to the system. (Either locally or in a present or newly
attached disk enclosure. You might even hot-plug a new ServeRAID adapter
into the server as described in 6.4.2, “Adding a PCI Hot Plug adapter” on page
108.)
2. Open the ServeRAID Manager program. The ServeRAID Manager program is
discussed in 6.1.2, “Installing the ServeRAID Manager program” on page 90.
3. Right-click the controller and select Scan for New or Removed Ready Drives
from the context menu.
4. Configure arrays and logical drives on the new disks.
5. Close ServeRAID Manager.
6. Open Windows 2000’s Disk Management tool. (Click Start > Programs >
Administrative Tools > Computer Management. Click the Disk
Management icon under Storage in the left pane.)
7. The new disks are not visible because there is only an automatic scan for
disks at Windows 2000 startup.
The new drive is mounted in the
folder structure of an existing
NTFS V5 drive.
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