Posted on Wednesday 21 February 2007 by Dave
The older PC I had used for the install had a pretty small hard drive in it, so I ran out and got a external USB hard drive to increase space on the server. It was a snap to upgrade and everything went very smooth. Here is a brief walk through of how easy it was.
Here you can see that I had barely 4G left of space but with the external drive attached that soon is going to be fixed:
You can see the external drive is not initialized at this time so I went ahead and right clicked on it:
Click on Add and you get the Add A Hard Drive Wizard:
Clicking on Next will bring a warning that the hard drive will be formatted when it is added:
I was ok with formatting so I hit Finish to get started and when it finished I got a results screen:
Click on Done and you can see the status of my new hard drive added to the server.
I was pleased to find that expanding the drive space was very easy. I kind of wish it didn’t force you to format the drive. The drive I got was fresh from Best Buy so it wasn’t really a problem, but I could see if you wanted to add a partially filled drive it could be problematic without having to do some housecleaning.