Adding Disk to Physical Exchange Servers

Greetings,
I have Exchange Server 2007 setup.
Having 2 Mailbox Server and 2 CAS Servers.
The Mailbox Server (Database drive) is running Low disk space on both the Mailbox servers.
Now i want to add Physical Disks to both the servers. I have already bought 5 HDD (300GB each).
Please let me know how to add disk space to both the Mailbox servers without any downtime.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards
K2

If you have CCR configured. Please check the below steps
Take a backup of the database drive using an exchange known backup.
Stop replication service or suspend replication on the database copy.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124706(v=exchg.80).aspx
Then configure the new partition with 300GB with higher space. Then run below command if it doesn't auto seed.
Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity:server\"storage group", If prompted use the -DeleteExistingFiles switch with this command.
Make sure your database copy can be mounted on the second server. Switch the database to passive server. Then do the same on the other server.
Here is a similar thread.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/0e4514f9-76da-44d2-9dec-a3be5add79b1/upgrading-hard-drives-in-exchange-server
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