Re: Repartition Server without Reinstall?

Another good reason not to use dynamic drives. Hardware based RAID is much
better and Acronis and other imaging/partitioning programs are much happier
to work.

"Gene Marz" <genem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to do this as well, but it won't make changes because it says my
second partition is a dynamic drive.

"newb, but learning" <newbbutlearning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Harry,

I have successfully repartitioned my SBS2003 SP1 server with a raid1
setup
using Acronis Disk Director. I installed the software in windows, took
some
space from one of the partitions and distributed it to the others. After
telling the program how to distribute the space, it asked for a reboot
and
made the changes prior to windows loading. Great product, I would
recomend it
to anyone.

"Harry Corry" wrote:

I have searched and read the previous posts about doing this.
However I couldn't find any post from someone that has done this on a
Hardware RAID5 setup.


System is as follows:
SBS 2003 Premium With SP1 and all other Patches applied.
Dell Hardware.

3x33.8GB HDs in Hardware RAID-5 Array

Partitioned as:
Drive Total Free
C: 10GB .25
D: 40GB 20.2
E: 17.6GB 10.5

I would like to take 5GB from both D: & E: and give them to C:

I understand that the only MS supported way to do this is to Backup,
Reinstall with desired new partitions and Restore. However I understand
that there are third party apps that can do this.

Can anyone who has successfully used one of these apps on a similar
setup please share the details.
Free or Trial versions of software are preferred as this is a once off
thing.

I have a copy of Partition Magic 8. I don't understand why this
wouldn't work (but had read that people say it won't)? It can run pre
the OS booting, and I thought the hardware RAID controller would take
care of itself.

Help/ Advice greatly appreciated.


-HC





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