Re: resizeing OS partition on a dynamic disk
- From: "Kev Kindred" <dv8dezign@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:22:44 +0100
Thanks Simon
Just had a chat with a nice lady from the company and she says it wont
resize dynamic disks :(
Kev K
"Simon Gray" <SimonGray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8582ABC1-9990-4690-9822-5AC81BF03707@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I don't know of a Microsoft product to do this, but I use a tool from
>Acronis
> (think it's call disk manager or some such) - works on SBS 2003 fine and
> only
> costs about 35 quid
>
> Simon
>
> "Kev Kindred" wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys (and Ladies)
>>
>> Time to ask you for your help again. When I originally installed sbs 2003
>> for our company I was only familiar with sbs2000 and it was the first one
>> 2003 one I had done (with some help from a mate) like a berk for some
>> reason
>> known only to a higher being I only allowed a 4 gb OS partition, put
>> exchange on a 2nd (14 gb) partition and 15 gb for company data - needless
>> to
>> say after about 18 months we ran out of space so I talked the boss into
>> buying a pair of 70 gb disks (all scsi) running built in software
>> mirroring
>> on a dell power edge with no raid card (I inherited the server). When I
>> put
>> the new drives in I figured I would be able to resize the partitions -
>> boy
>> did I feel stupid afterwards. so I have fudged things a bit but I am now
>> desperately short of space on my OS partition - I have moved the temp
>> folders, trimmed, deleted and pulled way to many hairy stunts to keep the
>> system running (praise the man who came up with the concept of back up
>> tapes - saved my rear end a few times) now as the disks are dynamic and
>> after hours of scouring the web it would seem my only solution to my
>> blithering idiocy is to fork out 300 euros/dollars and purchase Paragons
>> Partition Manager 7 server version as my trusty old copy of volume
>> manager
>> refuses to work on 2003. Now as this money would have to come out of my
>> hard
>> earned money (I am of in the position of looking like a complete idiot if
>> I
>> fess up to making a mistake in the first place) it would be rather nice
>> if
>> there was a way round this without resorting to (although well priced -
>> its
>> nearly Xmas) 3rd party apps
>>
>>
>>
>> I desperatly need to install the service packs but dont have the room on
>> my
>> OS partition
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>>
>>
>> Kev K
>>
>>
>>
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