Hard Drive Partitions...

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Steven Sinclair

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Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
250GB SATA (NTFS)

When my server arrived, the hard drive was partitioned into one 12GB
partition (C:), where the OS and system apps reside, and one 230GB partition
(D:), where the other apps and data resides.

It's been a while now and, of course, I'm running out of room on the C:
drive. Is there any way for me to re-partition the drive on the fly without
having to reinstall the operating system, all of my apps, and my data?

Thanx.
 
Re: Hard Drive Partitions...


"Steven Sinclair" <StevenSinclair@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:EF410C25-A173-43DF-A3C5-DAD2EF7932F8@microsoft.com...
> Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
> 250GB SATA (NTFS)
>
> When my server arrived, the hard drive was partitioned into one 12GB
> partition (C:), where the OS and system apps reside, and one 230GB
> partition
> (D:), where the other apps and data resides.
>
> It's been a while now and, of course, I'm running out of room on the C:
> drive. Is there any way for me to re-partition the drive on the fly
> without
> having to reinstall the operating system, all of my apps, and my data?
>
> Thanx.

You could use Acronis Disk Director. Remember to create & test a
full backup beforehand - things do go wrong at times . . .
 
Re: Hard Drive Partitions...

Is there any way to accomplish this without the purchase of new software? I
already have Partition Magic, but it reports that it cannot work with Windows
Server.

Thanx again.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "Steven Sinclair" <StevenSinclair@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:EF410C25-A173-43DF-A3C5-DAD2EF7932F8@microsoft.com...
> > Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
> > 250GB SATA (NTFS)
> >
> > When my server arrived, the hard drive was partitioned into one 12GB
> > partition (C:), where the OS and system apps reside, and one 230GB
> > partition
> > (D:), where the other apps and data resides.
> >
> > It's been a while now and, of course, I'm running out of room on the C:
> > drive. Is there any way for me to re-partition the drive on the fly
> > without
> > having to reinstall the operating system, all of my apps, and my data?
> >
> > Thanx.
>
> You could use Acronis Disk Director. Remember to create & test a
> full backup beforehand - things do go wrong at times . . .
>
>
>
 
Re: Hard Drive Partitions...

Steven Sinclair wrote:
> Is there any way to accomplish this without the purchase of new software? I
> already have Partition Magic, but it reports that it cannot work with Windows
> Server.
>
> Thanx again.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> "Steven Sinclair" <StevenSinclair@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:EF410C25-A173-43DF-A3C5-DAD2EF7932F8@microsoft.com...
>>> Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
>>> 250GB SATA (NTFS)
>>>
>>> When my server arrived, the hard drive was partitioned into one 12GB
>>> partition (C:), where the OS and system apps reside, and one 230GB
>>> partition
>>> (D:), where the other apps and data resides.
>>>
>>> It's been a while now and, of course, I'm running out of room on the C:
>>> drive. Is there any way for me to re-partition the drive on the fly
>>> without
>>> having to reinstall the operating system, all of my apps, and my data?
>>>
>>> Thanx.
>> You could use Acronis Disk Director. Remember to create & test a
>> full backup beforehand - things do go wrong at times . . .
>>
>>
>>

Try moving things (like the swap file) onto the D: drive. You could turn
off Restore Points.. Reduce the maximum size of the Recycle Bin....
Stuff like that...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
 
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