Expandind the C-Drive in a stripe set

[Guest]

Help!! I have a new client who has a server with only a 4 gig partition and
it only has 200 Megs free and is causing problems. I have cleared off as
much as was possible, and compressed other folders, but I still need more
room. Is there some way that I can expand the C-Drive's capacity on this
Windows 2000 Server? The system is using RAID and has three drives in the
array. The D-Drive, has over 100 Gigs left on it, so if I could just move a
little from the D to the C that would be ideal. The system is fully patched
and up to date. I have used Ghost and Partition Magic on her workstations,
but I don't think that this is going to work in my current situation. Any
help would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

 

[John7]

I fixed a similar problem before.

A 4GB partition is definately to small (certainly in the long run).
So it has to be enlarged.

Partition Magic might be able to repartition while keeping data on the
stripe set.
As I am not familiar with Partition Magic I took the safest way.

You seem to be in the computer business...

Connect a new/spare hard drive temporarily to a free (S)ATA server port.
Backup ALL source partitions to this drive using Ghost.
Make sure you Verify integrity of ALL images !
Disconnect drive for data safety.

Build a BartPE CD on a different computer.
See www.nu2.nu, PE-builder (BartPE).

Build driver floppy for RAID-controller in customers server.

Boot customer server from BartPE CD.
When displayed, press F6 for additional drivers.
Insert floppy when asked.
Install RAID-driver.
In BartPE, use Diskpart to re-partition the server stripe disk.
Shutdown and reconnect spare/new disk holding the Ghost images.
Restore partitions with Ghost.
Make sure you Verify integrity of ALL partitions.

Reboot server and uncompress as many files as possible
as compression killls server performance.
Done.

HTH,
John7