Windows 2000 + resize partition

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Hello everyone,

I'm having a problem resizing a Win2K server boot partition. Currently I'm
using Symantec's Volume Manager 2.0 (patched) which seems to work until I
reboot the server. Then, when the utility begins the necessary
modifications, the server hangs. I know that no modifications have been made
because I can then reboot the server and it comes back to the original
partition size.

Incidentally, chkdsk (and other utility) show no errors . . .

So, here's my question . . .
Has anyone had an experience similar to this and how was the problem solved
OR What utility is recommended to perform an operation of this nature?

thanks in advance for helping!!!
 
Well P(artition)M(agic)5 using the emergency disks will work just fine. I
believe you may need the patched version of 5 though 5.01 something like
that. Acronius also makes partitioning software although it seems to be
unable to format NTFS???

Does Volume Manager have a floppy disk interface called emergency usually.
You might try that. In fact Windows cannot be running during these
partition size changes keeping the data.
 
As George said, you need a VM diskette. PM doesn't work with server main
disk but you can fool it if you'd work with the server HDD in another
computer or reconfigure a server.
Resizing can turn out a disaster. If you'd pass some level during bad
attempts you can very well face it so clone the disk if possible.
If you got boot partition on RAID5 then backup and clone unconditionally.
 
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