Re: New Dell Server needs SBS2003 Reinstall-Partition question

For what its worth, we have a Dell 2850 with same drives PERC 4 and RAID 5.
I have a total of 210 GB available and I split:
c: OS and application programs - 30GB
D: Data - 105 GB
E - Exchange - 75GB

Alex
PS Swing Migration is great - have just used it and it saved me HOURS!



"Craig Kalugin" <CraigKalugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have a new Dell Poweredge 2800 Server with (4) 73Gb,U320,SCSI, 1 IN 10K
> drives with Embedded RAID - PERC4. My question is since this server has
> not
> been in service yet, i am going to reistall the operating system to
> prepare
> for Swing Migration. Right now there is only (1) partition of about 136 Gb
> (Drive C:). Is it okay to keep it that way or should I partition it
> differently? Also, where will the Exchange data go after the the Swing
> Migration? Drice C:?


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