Resize system drive HDD

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Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.

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> "Pleo" <pleoel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >A Server has three 18.2G HDD (wide ultra3 SCSI-3 10kII) and have the
> > following partition table on W2k Server.
> >
> > Disk0 (Dynamic, 33.91GB) - C: Capacity 2.93GB FAT D: Capacity 30.94GB
> > NTFS
> > Disk1 (Dynamic, 16.96GB) - D: Capacity 16.96GB NTFS
> >
> > Therefore the volume drive now has the following capacity
> >
> > Volume C: Simple Dynamic FAT Capacity:2.93GB Free:384M
> > Volume D: Spanned Dynamic NTFS Capacity: 47.9GB Free:10GB
> >
> > Since system C drive remains only around 400M bytes, what tools can
resize
> > it? Just want to enlarge the system drive for installing windows update
> > etc.
> > Thanks.
>

A system drive of 3 GBytes is grossly inadequate for a server.
15 GBytes would be a more appropriate figure. AFAIK, none
of the current partition managers will touch dynamic partitions.
Your only choice would be to do this:

1. Connect the system disk as a slave disk to some other machine.
2. Use xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe to copy both partitions to
a spare disk. Make sure to include ACLs and hidden files.
3. Test the spare disk in the server.
4. If it works, repartition the old disk, then reverse Step 2.

By the way, in your cross-post you missed the most relevant
newsgroup: Microsoft.public.windows.server.general.
 
Re: Resize system drive HDD

Reload Windows Server from scratch.


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> Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.
>
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>> "Pleo" <pleoel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:usOt34zIIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> >A Server has three 18.2G HDD (wide ultra3 SCSI-3 10kII) and have the
>> > following partition table on W2k Server.
>> >
>> > Disk0 (Dynamic, 33.91GB) - C: Capacity 2.93GB FAT D: Capacity 30.94GB
>> > NTFS
>> > Disk1 (Dynamic, 16.96GB) - D: Capacity 16.96GB NTFS
>> >
>> > Therefore the volume drive now has the following capacity
>> >
>> > Volume C: Simple Dynamic FAT Capacity:2.93GB Free:384M
>> > Volume D: Spanned Dynamic NTFS Capacity: 47.9GB Free:10GB
>> >
>> > Since system C drive remains only around 400M bytes, what tools can
> resize
>> > it? Just want to enlarge the system drive for installing windows update
>> > etc.
>> > Thanks.
>>
>
> A system drive of 3 GBytes is grossly inadequate for a server.
> 15 GBytes would be a more appropriate figure. AFAIK, none
> of the current partition managers will touch dynamic partitions.
> Your only choice would be to do this:
>
> 1. Connect the system disk as a slave disk to some other machine.
> 2. Use xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe to copy both partitions to
> a spare disk. Make sure to include ACLs and hidden files.
> 3. Test the spare disk in the server.
> 4. If it works, repartition the old disk, then reverse Step 2.
>
> By the way, in your cross-post you missed the most relevant
> newsgroup: Microsoft.public.windows.server.general.
>
>
>
>
 
Re: Resize system drive HDD

Got it. Thanks.


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>
>
> "Pleo" <pleoel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e9ABvtMJIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.
> >
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> >> "Pleo" <pleoel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:usOt34zIIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> >A Server has three 18.2G HDD (wide ultra3 SCSI-3 10kII) and have the
> >> > following partition table on W2k Server.
> >> >
> >> > Disk0 (Dynamic, 33.91GB) - C: Capacity 2.93GB FAT D: Capacity
30.94GB
> >> > NTFS
> >> > Disk1 (Dynamic, 16.96GB) - D: Capacity 16.96GB NTFS
> >> >
> >> > Therefore the volume drive now has the following capacity
> >> >
> >> > Volume C: Simple Dynamic FAT Capacity:2.93GB Free:384M
> >> > Volume D: Spanned Dynamic NTFS Capacity: 47.9GB Free:10GB
> >> >
> >> > Since system C drive remains only around 400M bytes, what tools can
> > resize
> >> > it? Just want to enlarge the system drive for installing windows
update
> >> > etc.
> >> > Thanks.
> >>
> >
> > A system drive of 3 GBytes is grossly inadequate for a server.
> > 15 GBytes would be a more appropriate figure. AFAIK, none
> > of the current partition managers will touch dynamic partitions.
> > Your only choice would be to do this:
> >
> > 1. Connect the system disk as a slave disk to some other machine.
> > 2. Use xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe to copy both partitions to
> > a spare disk. Make sure to include ACLs and hidden files.
> > 3. Test the spare disk in the server.
> > 4. If it works, repartition the old disk, then reverse Step 2.
> >
> > By the way, in your cross-post you missed the most relevant
> > newsgroup: Microsoft.public.windows.server.general.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
 
Re: Resize system drive HDD

Pleo wrote:
> Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.

You could try Ghost. I have used this before on dynamic disks, restoring
to a basic disk and altering the partition sizes in the process. It
worked fine for me, but your mileage may vary depending on whether all
your partitions were present when the disk was converted to dynamic,
etc, etc, etc.

If you do decide to go down this route, try the restore process on a
scratch disk first to make sure that it works. And make a backup before
you do anything.

--
Chris.


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>> "Pleo" <pleoel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:usOt34zIIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> A Server has three 18.2G HDD (wide ultra3 SCSI-3 10kII) and have the
>>> following partition table on W2k Server.
>>>
>>> Disk0 (Dynamic, 33.91GB) - C: Capacity 2.93GB FAT D: Capacity 30.94GB
>>> NTFS
>>> Disk1 (Dynamic, 16.96GB) - D: Capacity 16.96GB NTFS
>>>
>>> Therefore the volume drive now has the following capacity
>>>
>>> Volume C: Simple Dynamic FAT Capacity:2.93GB Free:384M
>>> Volume D: Spanned Dynamic NTFS Capacity: 47.9GB Free:10GB
>>>
>>> Since system C drive remains only around 400M bytes, what tools can
> resize
>>> it? Just want to enlarge the system drive for installing windows update
>>> etc.
>>> Thanks.
>
> A system drive of 3 GBytes is grossly inadequate for a server.
> 15 GBytes would be a more appropriate figure. AFAIK, none
> of the current partition managers will touch dynamic partitions.
> Your only choice would be to do this:
>
> 1. Connect the system disk as a slave disk to some other machine.
> 2. Use xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe to copy both partitions to
> a spare disk. Make sure to include ACLs and hidden files.
> 3. Test the spare disk in the server.
> 4. If it works, repartition the old disk, then reverse Step 2.
>
> By the way, in your cross-post you missed the most relevant
> newsgroup: Microsoft.public.windows.server.general.
>
>
>
>
 
Re: Resize system drive HDD

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Pleo wrote:

> Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.
>


There are googleable instructions on the web for moving the data from a
disk to a spare disk with the linux dd utilty, then using ntfsresize to
expand it to the full disk.

I did it recently with a Knoppix live CD to move XP from a 30 gig disk to
a 160 gig disk and it worked great.
 
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