Merging Foreign Disks
Dynamic disks with a foreign status are disks that have been moved from another system. You cannot reactivate a foreign disk; you must merge the disk to
the system. To change the status of a foreign disk and enable it to be seen as a part of the current system, use the command Merge Foreign Disk.
Perform the following steps to merge foreign disks:
1. Right-click a foreign disk, and then click Import Foreign Disks.
The Import Foreign Disk Wizard is displayed.
2. Select the foreign disks that you would like to merge to the system.
By default all foreign disks are selected to be merged.
3. Click Next.
4. Click Next again to validate the volume status of each foreign disk.
5. Click Finish.
Volume Overview
A volume is a logical entity that consists of portions of one or more physical disks. A volume can be formatted with a file system and can be accessed by a drive
letter.
Like disks, volumes can be basic or dynamic. Basic volumes refer to all volumes that are not on dynamic disks. Dynamic volumes are logical volumes created
from dynamic disks.
It is recommended that you create all data volumes on dynamic disks. On a hardware-RAID system, only the operating system disk should remain basic.
Checking Partition or Volume Properties
1. Right-click the partition or volume to be checked.
2. Select Properties from the context menu.
The Properties window displays.
3. Check the properties for your volume.
Formatting a Partition or Volume
1. Right-click the volume or partition you want to format, and then click Format.
2. When a message warns that all data on the partition will be lost and asks if you want to format the disk, click Yes.
3. Select NTFS as the file system type.
4. Enter a label for the volume.
The label appears on the Array Manager console. If a name has been selected, this name appears in the Name field. You can change the name by typing
a different name.
5. Enter an allocation size or use the default, which is automatically selected.
NOTE: Your NAS system supports only NTFS partitions. Formatting all partitions as NTFS allows for advanced features only available under that file
system.