Guest Wackamo Posted December 24, 2007 Posted December 24, 2007 We have a Compaq DL360 running Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 with a RAID 1 array. I have swapped out the 36GB hard drives with 172GB drives and allowed them to rebuild the array to the previous 36GB. Now I want to expand the size to use the full 172 or create a new partition leaving the current 36GB partition as a C drive. I have heard of using a tool like partition magic but I have never used this for servers. I would appreciate your comments and or suggestions.
Guest Dave Patrick Posted December 24, 2007 Posted December 24, 2007 Re: Increase HD Space For the former try one of these. http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirector/ http://www.partition-manager.com/corporate/server/ The latter can be done with Disk Management snap-in. Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Wackamo" wrote: > We have a Compaq DL360 running Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server > 2003 with a RAID 1 array. I have swapped out the 36GB hard drives > with 172GB drives and allowed them to rebuild the array to the > previous 36GB. Now I want to expand the size to use the full 172 or > create a new partition leaving the current 36GB partition as a C > drive. I have heard of using a tool like partition magic but I have > never used this for servers. I would appreciate your comments and or > suggestions.
Guest Holz Posted December 24, 2007 Posted December 24, 2007 Re: Increase HD Space On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:35:11 -0800, Wackamo wrote: > suggestions. How did you swap and end up with 36 GB? Did you use the raid array software to expand? You can image your C drive offline using Acronis bootable media and then build you array to 172 GB, restore your 36 GB partition and create the rest. -- :-)
Guest Hamdan Iftikhar Posted December 28, 2007 Posted December 28, 2007 Re: Increase HD Space how did you even allow the disk to rebuild - did you just remove a 32 pop in the 172 and allow it to build then remove the first 32 and pop in the second and allow it to build - if so that is not a good way to do it as essentially you are killing all your free space i.e. 172 - 32 gone to waste i think best way to do it is to take a full system back up including a system state - pull your disks out - plug in he new disk and use array config util to mirror them up - then install a base OS - and your back up utility softare then initiate a restore - that is how i would do it - actually i dont even think you can expand the array once you have it set up as RAID 0 without breaking it which mean data loss. let me know what you think ,.... thanks "Holz" <none@none.com> wrote in message news:476fe745$0$9534$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:35:11 -0800, Wackamo wrote: > >> suggestions. > > How did you swap and end up with 36 GB? Did you use the raid array > software to expand? > You can image your C drive offline using Acronis bootable media and then > build you array to 172 GB, restore your 36 GB partition and create the > rest. > > > > -- > :-)
Guest Wackamo Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Increase HD Space On Dec 28 2007, 12:58 am, "Hamdan Iftikhar" <hamdan.iftik...@hp.com> wrote: > how did you even allow the disk to rebuild - did you just remove a 32 pop in > the 172 and allow it to build then remove the first 32 and pop in the second > and allow it to build - if so that is not a good way to do it as essentially > you are killing all your free space i.e. 172 - 32 gone to waste i think best > way to do it is to take a full system back up including a system state - > pull your disks out - plug in he new disk and use array config util to > mirror them up - then install a base OS - and your back up utility softare > then initiate a restore - that is how i would do it - actually i dont even > think you can expand the array once you have it set up as RAID 0 without > breaking it which mean data loss. > > let me know what you think ,.... > thanks > > "Holz" <n...@none.com> wrote in message > > news:476fe745$0$9534$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > > > > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:35:11 -0800,Wackamowrote: > > >> suggestions. > > > How did you swap and end up with 36 GB? Did you use the raid array > > software to expand? > > You can image your C drive offline using Acronis bootable media and then > > build you array to 172 GB, restore your 36 GB partition and create the > > rest. > > > -- > > :-)- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I have received various opinions and at this point it appears that I can change the array to dynamic and expand or shrink as needed. I plan to create a second partition, move Exchange to it, then use the existing partition for the OS only.
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