Disk space issue

[Chris Patterson]

Hello, I have a client that had another party set up their 2000 box. This
party created a system partition far too small and to top it off made it a
dynamic disk. There is additional space on the drive that I need to reclaim.

I check on Veritas Volume Manager but it can not work with dynamic disks,
does anyone know of another utility that can merge a dynamic disk? In
absence of such a utility I am guessing my only course of action is to back
up to tape, delete the partitions, reinstall Windows and restore from tape.

Chris

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello, I have a client that had another party set up their 2000 box. This
party created a system partition far too small and to top it off made it a
dynamic disk. There is additional space on the drive that I need to reclaim.

I check on Veritas Volume Manager but it can not work with dynamic disks,
does anyone know of another utility that can merge a dynamic disk? In
absence of such a utility I am guessing my only course of action is to back
up to tape, delete the partitions, reinstall Windows and restore from tape.

Chris

There is a simpler way:
1. Install the disk in some other Win2000/XP box.
2. Use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches to
copy the system disk to a spare disk.
3. Make sure the boot partition on the spare disk is active.
4. Test the spare disk.
5. If it works, repartition the system disk, then perform
the reversal of Step 2.

 

[Chris Patterson]

Thanks for you post and advise I may have to failed to mention that this is
a 2000 server and a DC, I do not believe that course of action would work,
besides SCSI drives and no other server available with the same mass storage
devise.

Chris

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Boot the server with a Bart PE boot CD
(http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download),
and perform the copy process to a temporary
IDE hard disk of sufficient size.