Re: Windows 2003 Standard Diskpart Extend

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If this command should fail, am I going to be down until I can restore my
entire system? I am considering doing the diskpart extend command on a
weeknight, but if there is potential for needing to rebuild the server
entirely, I would wait for a long weekend or something like that. i.e. if it
does not work and I have to do more research or somethign that would be fine
on a week day, but if it crashes the entire server so I can't boot
again...well that would be catastrophic on a weeknight since I would not have
a large enough window to recover befor the next AM when everyone comes to
work.

"Kevin McNiel [MSFT]" wrote:

> Yes, we recommend extending the volume in Safe Mode, we've seen systems hang
> when trying to extend a partition in Normal Mode. The actual process is
> pretty quick. The bulk of the time spent will be in typing the commands. As
> always when performing an operation of this nature, I strongly recommend
> that you have a complete and verified backup of the server including System
> State. Please post any additional questions you may have.
>
> Kevin McNiel, MCSE/MCSA
> Platform Server Setup Group
>
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>
> "Roundy" <Roundy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F78FA3B5-46EE-4AD8-A508-B4955CA35BAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have an HP Prolian ML370 G3 with 3 72.8 GB drives in it. I recently
> >added
> > a fourth drive and expanded the array, and extended the partition. Now,
> > in
> > disk management it shows that i have 67.?? GB of unallocated disk space.
> > I
> > have two paritions on the Raid Array, c: for system stuff and F: for data
> > stuff. I would like to extend the F: drive. I am using basic disks.
> >
> > How long will the extend process take?
> > Do I really need to do it in safemode?
> > Is there anything else I should know? I have read some pretty scary stuff
> > about extending paritions and then not having access to the added space
> > and
> > things like that?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> >
>
>
>
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