Windows 2k Server Disk Mgmt

[chas]

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

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

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

 

[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