Resize system drive HDD

[Guest Pleo]

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.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Resize system drive HDD

 

Reload Windows Server from scratch.

 

 

"Pleo" <pleoel@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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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.

>

>

>

>

[Guest Pleo]

Re: Resize system drive HDD

 

Got it. Thanks.

 

 

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> Reload Windows Server from scratch.

>

>

> "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.

> >

> >

> >

> >

>

>

[Guest Chris M]

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.

>

>

>

>

[Guest P. Thompson]

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.