Re: Space Constrained HD - SBS SP1 size concern
- From: "Rob Pettrey" <RobPettrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:47:01 -0700
Frank,
Will Paragon Disk Manager work if you are expanding an SBS 2003 BOOT
partition?
I ask because every package (well, every reasonably-priced package) I looked
at would expand any type of partition except a boot partition, and so I used
MS's laborious (but free) technique of creating an unattend file on the boot
drive, and then upgrade while expanding the partition.
I had an SBS 2000 network that I upgraded to SBS 2003, and the only way I
could find to expand the boot partition was to create adjacent space off the
end of the boot drive and then follow the instructions in this Q article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325857
It was a lot of time, and a lot of work. If I could buy something
off-the-shelf that would automagically expand the boot partition, that would
be great! And if the boot partition can be expanded, what version of
Partition Manager did you use to do this? Professional? Technical?
I inherited another SBS 2000 install on a Dell server that is hived off into
a 10 Gb boot partition that I would like to expand when I upgrade it next
week. I could backup/chg size/install/restore, or create space off end/MS
upgrade, or use this package, which would be great!
"Frank McCallister SBS MVP" wrote:
> Hi Dale
>
> Paragon Disk manager will do this for you if the partition is adjacent.
> http://www.partition-manager.com/ of course make a pair of verified backups
> but I have used this to clone and expand Windows Server 2003 drives myself
>
> --
> Frank McCallister SBS MVP
> COMPUMAC
> "Dale Networkguy" <DaleNetworkguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:9ED18FFE-907B-449A-9A52-995348BFAB58@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I've got an undersized system partition on an SBS 2k3 Prem server that I
> > inherited from a consultant who set it up. The system HD is 6.8 GB with a
> > scant 1.1 GB left free. Will it fit? Can the system partition be
> > expanded
> > to use adjacent free disk space?
> >
> > The system is fully updated and even has the Exchange SP1, SharePoint SP2,
> > XP Client deployment files, and SQL 2000 SP4 updates installed. I
> > really!!!!
> > want to install the remaining Win2k3 SP1 and SBS 2k3 SP1 updates but am
> > very
> > fearful of them not having enough room.
> >
> > On a test of space used on a virtual SBS standard server I had from a
> > class
> > the deployment resulted in approximately 1.1 GB used for W2k3 SP1 and 0.3
> > GB
> > used for the SBS SP1 portion.
> >
> > After all those hours installing the Prem. SP CD's I then realized my lab
> > experiment wasn't sufficiently controlled for an "apples to apples"
> > comparison. The test server was not updated at all prior to these
> > updates.
> > I surmise that, as in the case of large service packs, many of the
> > included
> > updates would be redundant and therefore wouldn't be installed nor take up
> > any space. So if that is true than my scant 1.1 GB might just be enough.
> > What do you think? How much space needed?
> >
> > I have tried moving everything off the system drive possible including the
> > print server spool and the swap file. I do have an adjacent 5 GB
> > partition
> > that could be deleted and its space could be made available for merging.
> > The
> > limitation to this concept is that I don't think you can expand the system
> > partition. So going dynamic disk doesn't seem viable. Do you have any
> > ideas? (I've already thought of some really bad things to do to the
> > consultant :) )
> >
> > TIA
>
>
>
.
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