I have a Dell PowerEdge Server running 3 70GB Scsi Drives
1 drive is unused and unformated. The other two drives are
mirrored and partioned incorrectly. The Boot PArtition"c"
was setup with only a 4gb partition. Does anyone know can
the boot partition be extended in anyway? All Disks are
basic and can only be accessed using the Hell I mean Dell
array program. There must be a way to copy just the "C"
portion of the drive to the new drive that is unformatted.
Any ideas???
Chas

chas

Copying an installation this way is not going to work.

Do you have free space after your system/boot partition? In that case, you
might be able to use diskpart.exe from "safe mode with command prompt" to
expand your system partition to fill the free area.

This is normally not recommended on the system partition, but usually works
anyway. Also see this MS Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325590

Another option is to perform an upgrade installation, as this article
describes:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=289876

A third option is to use Powerquest Volume Manager in order to reduce the
size of other partitions, if this is needed, and then expand the system
partition.

Best regards

Bjorn
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Bjorn Landemoo - (E-Mail Removed) - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking

"chas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have a Dell PowerEdge Server running 3 70GB Scsi Drives
>1 drive is unused and unformated. The other two drives are
>mirrored and partioned incorrectly. The Boot PArtition"c"
>was setup with only a 4gb partition. Does anyone know can
>the boot partition be extended in anyway? All Disks are
>basic and can only be accessed using the Hell I mean Dell
>array program. There must be a way to copy just the "C"
>portion of the drive to the new drive that is unformatted.
>Any ideas???
>Chas

Well, All is lost. Diskpart.exe wouldnt extend the boot
partition. I tried to use Ghost 8.0 With no luck. I tried
to do a Windows Backup/restore which seemed to go well
until my terminal server users were not able to get their
printers to work properly. Everything I'm readiing is
pointing to a total format and a start from scratch. Does
anyone elsehave any suggestions???

Chas
>-----Original Message-----
>chas
>
>Copying an installation this way is not going to work.
>
>Do you have free space after your system/boot partition?
In that case, you
>might be able to use diskpart.exe from "safe mode with
command prompt" to
>expand your system partition to fill the free area.
>
>This is normally not recommended on the system partition,
but usually works
>anyway. Also see this MS Knowledge Base article:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325590
>
>Another option is to perform an upgrade installation, as
this article
>describes:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=289876
>
>A third option is to use Powerquest Volume Manager in
order to reduce the
>size of other partitions, if this is needed, and then
expand the system
>partition.
>
>Best regards
>
>Bjorn
>--
>Bjorn Landemoo - (E-Mail Removed) - http://landemoo.com/
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
>
>"chas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I have a Dell PowerEdge Server running 3 70GB Scsi Drives
>>1 drive is unused and unformated. The other two drives
are
>>mirrored and partioned incorrectly. The Boot
PArtition"c"
>>was setup with only a 4gb partition. Does anyone know
can
>>the boot partition be extended in anyway? All Disks are
>>basic and can only be accessed using the Hell I mean
Dell
>>array program. There must be a way to copy just the "C"
>>portion of the drive to the new drive that is
unformatted.
>>Any ideas???
>>Chas
>
>.
>