Sort out my dedicated server hard drives

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Hi, I purchased a dedicated server from Hetzner, and it came with 15 x 4TB hard drives, and a RAID controller... I installed Windows, but noticed that my C: drive was 2TB max. I looked at Disk Management, and saw that no other disks were visible, but the remaining 46TB's were available if I was to expand the C: drive. This wasn't possible due to the clusters being too small?? I wasn't sure what to do, so I tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard to increase the cluster size, and now Windows won't boot. I'm not bothered about Windows, I can reinstall that - It was a fresh install anyway. I just want to sort out these hard drives so that I can use all of them. Ideally, I'd like to keep one drive for the OS (C:\), and the other 14 drives for data (D:\) - Striped? I haven't used a proper Raid controller before, and my knowledge of Linux Rescue is basically non existent. Is there anyone that can help me with this? Thanks

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@ajthorpe

Hi, I'm available immediately to look at this for you. As you say, I'd need access to the Linux rescue system in order to reconfigure the RAID controller, and then you can reinstall Windows. Do you know what level of RAID you'd like the remaining disks to be included in (RAID 5 or RAID 10?). PM me if you want to chat about this. Regards, Andrew

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@Programmer59

Hello Sir, I am expert in it I can help you with it also I can start form now can we discuss ? I am waiting your response Thank you

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@kalinowskipiotr

The reason you can't expand partition beyond 2TB is because you have formatted disk using MBR partition style (unless you are using 32bit Windows there's probably no point using it), using GPT will allow you to have partition up to 9.44ZB (zettabytes)

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@drkamine

Hello, i'm an expert IT with more 15 years of experience in IT industry . i'm certified Cisco networking professional 300-100 and 300-115 and Linux professional lpi 101, 102 and RHCSA and VCP 4, 5,5.5 and Data Center and MSCA/MSCE ranging from 2003 to 2012 . i Can fix your issue. which Windows do you have ?

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@psfreitas

Hello, I am interested in carrying out your project. With this follows proposal for execution of the work as its description. I work with IT consulting and support, and work directly with cloud environments. I have experience in web systems and on Windows and Linux platforms. Regards, Pascoal Freitas

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