{"id":136,"date":"2009-04-29T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=136"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:41","slug":"how-to-install-a-new-volumedisk-with-gtp-partition-in-windows-2003-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"How to install a new volume\/disk with GTP partition in Windows 2003 Server."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default a new disk or volume added to Windows 2003 server is created with MBR partition.  MBR has a maximum size limitation of 2 terra bytes, but it is bootable, meaning use MBR if you are setting up a bootable partition.  GTP exceeds the 2 TB maximum size limitation, I\u2019m not sure what the maximum limitation is but it\u2019s large.<\/p>\n<p>A basic disk is a physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives.<\/p>\n<p>Master Boot Record (MBR) disk partitions can be accessed from any versions of Windows or MS-DOS.<\/p>\n<p>GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk partitions can only be accessed from Windows Server 2003 with service pack 1 or later.  It can also be accessed from any 64 bit verssion of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to show you how to configure and create a GTP partition using as many visual aid as possible.  I find that visual goes a lot further and is easier to understand.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 120;\ngoogle_ad_height = 240;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"120x240_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_5.gif\" title=\"Windows Disk Manager\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"492\" height=\"379\" \/><br \/>\nAfter you have installed the new disk drives in the server, you should be able to see it in Computer Management MMC.  To launch this MMC click on Start \u2013 Administrative Tools \u2013 Computer Management.  Click on cancel to by pass the wizard.                                              <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Windows Server 2003 Disk Management MMC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement.gif\" title=\"Windows Server 2003 Disk Management MMC\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CLICK IMAGE for LARGE VIEW. Windows Server 2003 Disk Management MMC - Figure 2.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the example shown in figure 2, the new disk is Disk 1, click on figure 1 to expand the graphic for clearer view.  <\/p>\n<p>Step (1, figure 2) Right click on Disk 1 and select Initialize Disk.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Select disk to initialize - Figure 3.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_1.gif\" title=\"Select Disk to initialize\" width=\"404\" height=\"237\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Select disk to initialize - Figure 3.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Step (2, figure 3) Select the disk that you want to initialize. Disk 1 is selected by default.  Click on OK to continue. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_3.gif\" title=\"Windows Disk Manager\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"507\" height=\"133\" \/><br \/>\nStep (3)<br \/>\nThe status of disk 1 should now change from Not Initialized to Online.  The disk type is by default set to Basic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_4.gif\" title=\"Windows Disk Manager\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"368\" height=\"174\" \/><br \/>\nStep (4)<br \/>\nRight click on the new disk where it says unallocated, and select new partition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_6.gif\" title=\"windows disk manager\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"490\" height=\"366\" \/><br \/>\nStep (5)<br \/>\nSpecify the partition size you want to create and select next to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_7.gif\" title=\"windows disk manager\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"445\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nStep (6)<br \/>\nAssign a drive letter, in this case E:\\.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_8.gif\" title=\"windows disk manager\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"433\" height=\"378\" \/><br \/>\nStep (7)<br \/>\nFormat the partition with NTFS file system, and name the volume DATA.  Then click on next to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_9.gif\" title=\"Windows Disk Manager\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"382\" height=\"187\" \/><br \/>\nStep (8)<br \/>\nYou can now see the status of the drive being formatted.  When completed move on to the next step.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows_disk\/disk_mamagement_2.gif\" title=\"Windows Disk Manager\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"513\" height=\"208\" \/><br \/>\nStep (9)<br \/>\nBy default the disk type is set to Basic.  To convert to GPT, right click on Disk 1 and select Convert to GTP Disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default a new disk or volume added to Windows 2003 server is created with MBR partition. MBR has a maximum size limitation of 2 terra bytes, but it is bootable, meaning use MBR if you are setting up a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=136\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}