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Boot Partition Resizing/Merging - Windows 2003

  • 29-04-2007 10:46am
    #1
    _Kaiser_
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    Does anyone know where I can get a (preferably free) partition resize tool that will allow me to merge a D: partition into the C: boot one without having to reformat the machine.

    It's a backup server so I'll do it that way if I have to, but I thought I'd ask here if anyone has used a program to do this that they can recommend?

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/5079e4a1-b0be-4fdf-9b4a-ece7a0755c5c1033.mspx?mfr=true
    You cannot extend a system volume, boot volume, striped volume, mirrored volume, or RAID-5 volume.

    I've used ntfsreize on the Knoppix CD before, not sure if it's on the live ubuntu cd but you can apt-get it. Probably best to use qtparted (knoppix) / gparted (ubuntu) so you can see what's going on

    use spacemonger to ID larger junk folders and clean them out
    defrag the drives
    if using qtparted - it will only shrink from the top so you would have to delete the D: and grow the C: and restore into it - be careful of duplicate folders

    if using gparted - it will shrink the bottom so C: would grow into this space and then you move the files across (boot back in to NTFS to do that - reboot with the CD for the next shrink and so on )

    Make sure you have a backup of the server and are capable of rebuilding it and have all the driver disks before you do it.


    Do you have RAID ? many high end scsi cards have utilities to resize partitions - you might be better off doing it that way, also if you can pop in a large SCSI drive you can move / mirror the C: to it and then expand it and then mirror backwards ( I prefer this way because if anything horrible happens you can just revert back to the mirror )


  • #3
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,918 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Cheers.. its not that big a deal to rebuild it. All it's doing is acting as a print and IM server, both of which could be set back up in an hour.
    It's an old HP Netserver with 3 disks in RAID5 yea.

    I'll have a look at that though. Partition Magic (before Symantec took it over anyway) used to support 2000 server but it doesnt do 2003 unfortunately :(


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Kaiser2000 wrote:
    Partition Magic (before Symantec took it over anyway) used to support
    Don't get me started on Backup Exec (before Symantec took it over anyway)


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