Re: Resizeing partition

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You never mentioned SCSI in your original post . . .

I would try doing the same by booting the machine
with a Bart PE boot CD (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download).
Making one of those takes a bit of time but it is a terrific
tool for server administrators.


"Patrik Söderberg" <PatrikSderberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Thanks for the answer!

The problem with doing it as you suggest is that I don't have a different
SCSI controller equipped server to play around with. I guess I just have
to
solve it some other way.

Thanks anyway.

Regards,
Patrik Söderberg


There are no native tools in Windows to do this. You could
use a third-party tool such as Disk Director (Acronis) or PQMagic
(PowerQuest) to resize your partition on the fly. To play it absolutely
safe you would have to back up both partitions to a separate disk,
test this disk for full functionality, then resize the partitions. Here
is
alternative method:

1. Break the mirror.
2. Partition the mirror disk the way you want it to be and
label it "Mirror". Mark the primary partition active and
format both partitions.
3. Connect the main disk and the mirror disk to the
secondary IDE controller of some Win2000/XP PC.
4. Use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches to copy
the main disk to "Mirror". Make sure to include hidden files,
attributes and security descriptors.
5. Install "Mirror" as the primary master on your server (but
not the main disk!). It should boot normally.

If all works well then you can reconnect the "main" disk,
delete its partitions and rebuild the mirror.




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