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My server has Asus p8b-m motherboard with Intel c250 chip. I need to upgrade the raid1 volume on the server from current 500GB to 4TB. It's running Windows 2011 SBS essesntials.
I tried to follow the procedure indicated on Intel article https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/support/articles/000005837/technologies/intel-rapid-storage-technology-intel-rst.html
Following the steps and changing the raid to non-raid and booting of just new disk makes the Windows unbootable and keeps going to recovery mode. It seems like it messes up the boot partition etc.i noticed in bcdedit in recovery command prompt screen. Not sure what is correct way, even removing the smaller disk and keeping large disk i cannot boot to Small Windows server 2011. The disk has 2 partitions (C:: & D:) along with system reserved 100mb. i see in the bcdedit display it assign C: to system reserved and D: to Windows tried repairing it but no luck, Even tried cloning few time still the issue cannot migrate to the larger disk preserving the OS and application.
Is there any other easier way to migrate to new 4tb disks. I tried cloning but being raid volume doesn't seem to work. Tried rebuilding
Can i make the volume non-raid, clone it new disk and add the new disk as non-raid first. After can i create the raid with 2nd 4TB disk, will it delete the data when creating raid with existing non-raid disk. If someone has experience please advise. Thanks
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Hi David, Thanks for responding, i figured out the board/chipset must be very old and not compatible with RST so tried with matrix storage manager. Voila, i could see the rebuild option & lot more. I am able to rebuild the disk to new larger disk but now the issue is after following the steps and changing the raid to non-raid and booting of just new disk makes the Windows unbootable and keeps going to recovery mode. It seems like it messes up the boot partition etc.i noticed in bcdedit in recovery command prompt screen. Not sure what is correct way, even removing the smaller disk and keeping large disk i cannot boot to Small Windows server 2011. The disk has 2 partitions (C:: & D:) along with system reserved 100mb. i see in the bcdedit display it assign C: to system reserved and D: to Windows tried repairing it but no luck, Even tried cloning few time still the issue cannot migrate to the larger disk preserving the OS and application.
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Yes, i did go into bios when tried booting with new larger disk and changed the SATA configuration to AHCI from RAID and also the boot order. Windows start booting from the disk but goes into recovery mode, where i noticed in the command windows using BCDEDIT that the partitions drive letters are messed up. It assign C: to system reserved and D: to Windows that may be the issue, i tried changing those using diskpart but still not able to boot successfully.
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David, When you say rebuilding with other disk you mean with original disk that was removed before converting to non-raid. I am not able to transfer since disk contains the boot and OS volume, i have tried cloning with 3rd party tools without any success.
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I did reset the disk to non-raid in the BIOS raid utility through Ctrl+I and option 3. The raid controller is intel ich8r/ich9r/ich10r/do and seems to not work with the 4tb disk or 1TB disk. It only seemed to work with just one model of 1TB disk, i had at home. So running without redundancy. will need to figure out why is not working with other disk, Windows goes into the repair mode and no option works after that. is it possible the raid controller is not compatible with newer disks?
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