Re: Repartitioning Hard drive

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From: Phil Peak (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/22/04


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:49:46 -0700

Henry

1 It's a win 2000 server

2 What's a dynamic disk drive. sorry to be thick. All I
know is it's a fujitsu MAJ3364MP SCSI 36gig

3 I'll take a look at the page file etc.

Many thanks.

Phil
>-----Original Message-----
>My mistake, I assumed it was as per the majority of disk
space problems
>here, being an overloaded C:\ on the SBServer itself.
>
>Ok. 1st. Windows Member Server 4Gb C:\
>- That wouldn't be an NT4 Server would it ? If so 7.8
gigabytes is Max
>C:\ Size.
>
>2nd. If It's Dynamic Disk PM Won't work on it.
>
>3rd. Sounds like the Page File. - Move it to the D:\
Drive as a fixed
>Size PageFile. ( also move the System Variable Temp
Files to a Folder on
>D:\ as well. )
>
>Otherwise, I think you should be OK, but mind the
instructions and
>Backup the drive before you do anything Ghosting is
Good -and this
>brings up an alternative - Ghost it and then Ghost back
to larger
>partitions ( if Applicable ).
>
>--
>Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
> Melbourne Australia
>
>
>"Phil Peak" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:1fa7e01c45839$909fd2f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi Henry
>>
>> Sorry I wasn't very clear on my initial question. We
have
>> 3 servers. A SBS 2000 running exchange internet
>> connection users etc, and a file server running our
stock
>> control system.And an esops web server. It is the
second
>> server we are having problems with. The c:\ drive is
>> stripped of most stuff but is always complaining of low
>> disk space. Currently 4gig with 251meg of free space.
>> This is a partition of the main drive which is 36gig,
>> half of the larger partition is free about 15gig.
>
>
>.
>



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