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Paul
Can anyone recommend a partition resizing utility which:
a) works with Small Business Server 2000 (on a Windows 2000 Server
platform)?
b) is robust, reliable and safe?
c) does not require you to speak techno-babble to understand how to use
it?
d) does not cost the price of a new server?
I let SBS 2000 set up my server with the default values which created a 4GB
boot partition on a 18GB disk. I am down to 400 MB and I need to expand the
partition. I have loads of free space on the disk.
Of the various alternatives, I went for Hard Disk Manager from Paragon (a
German company I think). The leading product, Partition Magic, doesn't run
on W2K server (or so I am told) and the server-compatible equivalent product
(can't remember it's name) is ludicrously expensive for a small organisation
with limited computing resources.
Trouble is that HDM looks OK but wants to reboot the machine into a DOS-like
interface whenever working on the boot partition. This is unreliable and
cranky and, in my experience, doesn't work as advertised. Worse still, the
help and manual are badly written so I find it hard to know what I am
supposed to do or what risks I am taking. The manual is inconsistent and
does not appear to have been updated for Windows 2000 (!).
I have already had one near-disaster with this programme when it fell over
without completing a partition copying exercise. On rebooting, I discovered
that it had changed the active partition. I then had to scrabble around
tracking down a boot floppy from which I could run fdisk to change it back
again. This cost me a lot of hours and probably some years off my life!
One very bad experience and several instances of the product not working as
described have put me off. I can't afford the risk this represents - but are
there any sensible alternatives.
Suggestions gratefully received.
Paul - Coventry UK
a) works with Small Business Server 2000 (on a Windows 2000 Server
platform)?
b) is robust, reliable and safe?
c) does not require you to speak techno-babble to understand how to use
it?
d) does not cost the price of a new server?
I let SBS 2000 set up my server with the default values which created a 4GB
boot partition on a 18GB disk. I am down to 400 MB and I need to expand the
partition. I have loads of free space on the disk.
Of the various alternatives, I went for Hard Disk Manager from Paragon (a
German company I think). The leading product, Partition Magic, doesn't run
on W2K server (or so I am told) and the server-compatible equivalent product
(can't remember it's name) is ludicrously expensive for a small organisation
with limited computing resources.
Trouble is that HDM looks OK but wants to reboot the machine into a DOS-like
interface whenever working on the boot partition. This is unreliable and
cranky and, in my experience, doesn't work as advertised. Worse still, the
help and manual are badly written so I find it hard to know what I am
supposed to do or what risks I am taking. The manual is inconsistent and
does not appear to have been updated for Windows 2000 (!).
I have already had one near-disaster with this programme when it fell over
without completing a partition copying exercise. On rebooting, I discovered
that it had changed the active partition. I then had to scrabble around
tracking down a boot floppy from which I could run fdisk to change it back
again. This cost me a lot of hours and probably some years off my life!
One very bad experience and several instances of the product not working as
described have put me off. I can't afford the risk this represents - but are
there any sensible alternatives.
Suggestions gratefully received.
Paul - Coventry UK