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I have an old Dell Precision T5400 workstation: - 2xquad core Xeon CPUs, - Windows 7 Pro 64Bit - 4GB (2x2GB) FB-DDR2 ECC RAM There are 8 memory slots on the motherboard. I've ordered a 16GB certified RAM kit on ebay (4x 4GB) I want to use it to run 2 or 3 virtual machines: A small web...

Thanks for the reply John. This server is perhaps 2007/2008 vintage - so I don't know whether it will support the expansion. The client still has 100GB+ free in the drives so I will leave messing with it until it becomes more urgent.

I have not yet had a chance to try the partition software recommended above, but the forum wants to close this thread.... The client still has some space on the disks so I'm goint to let it rest until they need the space.

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Thanks for the answer. Have you tried this - would it work on a Raid volume? there's no mention on the site you linked to.

I've just run into the same issue, and resolved it using the instructions and reassurance from this thread. Time consuming but pretty simple :) My old drives were 320 GB and the new ones are 1TB, so I'm left with the new drives containing the 320GB image and 600GB+ of wasted, inaccessible...

I have a Win2003 server with two hard drives mirrored in a Raid 1 configuration. The RAID controller is Intel Matrix Storage Console. The original disks were 320GB. One failed recently so I have replaced them both with 1TB drives (the smallest disks I could buy!) using the advice in this...