Re: Win 2K3 Server drive advice

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya Darren,
If I remember correctly - you wont be able to expand your c: drive with
windows directly.
Its seems a bit daft as you CAN increase the size of volumes (the new
name for partitions!) created on a dynamic disk, BUT upgrading a basic
disk to a dynamic still wont give you the ability to increase, as a
partition must have been created on a dynamic disk to start with - not
on a disk that has been upgraded. (you therefor will always have the
problem of how do you increase your boot disk size)

So... always create yourself a boot / os partition thats big enough to
hold anything basic os + room for a bit of expansion... Upgrade your
disk to dynamic then create a your data volume on that. Then you can
expand it as and when your disks get bigger...

As none of this helps you out at the mo :/ - probably the easiest thing
you can do is get something like Volume Manager (partition magic for
servers) and use that to grow your disk. (all this on the basis that you
can grow your raid 5 set)

Hopefully not tooo many errors in there :)
Wayne.
(if anyones found any other ways ...)

darren_karp2001 wrote:

>Hi All,
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>Does anyone know how to increase the size of a partition? I have a 3
>disk RAID system which I've partitioned up but need to increase the
>size of drive C as it's very low on space. All the partitions are
>configured as a Basic disk if that is relevant.
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>Cheers in advance.
>Darren
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