Guest Steven Sinclair Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 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.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 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 . . .
Guest Steven Sinclair Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 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 . . . > > >
Guest Hank Arnold (MVP) Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 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... -- Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
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