Re: Repartitioning Problem and RAID 1
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:58:55 +1000
"Phil Buzzette" <PhilBuzzette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:86ADEB06-594C-4478-892F-7174986656F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My company has an Exchange Server with 2 120GB drives Mirrored. The driveis
in 2 partitions, boot partition (c:) @ 6GB and the rest for the storageI
partition (d:). Why they built this with a 6GB partition and Server 2003,
have no idea. I just came on board. Anyway, I need to resize the (c:) tobe
larger. I have tried using a couple linux tools and none have worked. Mostof
the tools that I have found state that you have to format the hard drive,you
which is what I do not want to do. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank
in advance.
There are a number of partition resizing tools (PQMagic,
Acronis) that can change partition sizes on the fly but with
all of them there is a risk that something might go wrong,
thus forcing you to back up everything beforehand. Here
is an alternative method. It is free and totally safe:
1. Break the mirror.
2. Repartition the second disk, then format the partitions.
Set the first partition to "active".
3. Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD
(http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download).
4. Use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches to copy
hidden files & permissions to the second disk.
5. Disconnect the first disk and make the second disk
the primary master.
6. Boot the machine with your server CD, get into the
Recovery Console and run these commands:
fixboot
fixmbr
7. Reboot the machine normally to convince yourself that
you have a working disk. If you have not then you can
go back to your original disk.
8. Install the original disk as a slave disk, delete its
partitions and create a mirror.
Creating a Bart PE boot CD takes a bit of time but it
is a terrific tool for system admins. If you don't want
to do this then you can perform the copy process on
any Win2000/XP PC while both disks are connected
to the secondary IDE controller.
.
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