Resize system drive HDD

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Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. 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.
 
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Pleo said:
Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. 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.
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Pleo said:
Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.
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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.
 
Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks.
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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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