Increasing the C: partition size on a SBS 2003 system

The default 12gb c: partion on this system is down to 2.5 gb. I'm still
finding files I can either remove or redirect but I have concern for the long
term space needs for this partition and want to increase it size. This is a
Dell Poweredge 2800 server w/ raid 1. Two phisical disks look like one to the
os. This logical drive is partitioned as c & d. The d partition has pleanty
orf space. If this were any other sys I would have already run Partition
Magic or Diskeeper and been done with it but I can't afford a mistake on this
server and modifying system partitions is not supported by Dell and risky
anyway.

Dell & MS both say the c: & d: partitions will have to be backed up and SBS
2003 re-installed with the backup applied in a specific manner allowing the
old application configurations to be inherited. This will allow, during the
beginning of the new install, the repartitioning of c: to a larger size.

Am I missing anything here? Anybody know a better way. This looks like a
full 8 hour night project if nothing goes wrong.

Additionally, how do you run SBS and all of its component system in a 12 gb
partition? I have redirected the docs & setting folders for all users, moved
the Exchange stores, moved the SQLServer db files and turned off volume
shadowing on c:.

I'm blown away there is not a straight forward approach to this.

Tnx,
Richard
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