RE: Increase size of boot drive

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Hello Paul,

Thank you for posting here.

According to your description, I understand that you SBS 2003 C drive has
very little free space and you want to find a resolution. If I have
misunderstood the problem, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Based on my research, I suggest we try the following steps to see if we can
resolve this issue:

1. The easy method is to move data from C drive to E drive or another disk.

The data we can move to another drive or disk include the Users Shared
Folders, SharePoint and Monitoring databases, Exchange databases and log
files, Sent Faxes folder, and ClientApps shared folder. You can use the
instructions in this document to move one or all of the data folders.

This document provides step-by-step instructions for moving each of the
data folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003:
Moving Data Folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a1d0af69-1287-4225-
bd8b-59c89f44984b&displaylang=en

2. If move all data unable to give you enough free space in C drive, you
many need to backup SBS, resize the disk and restore the SBS. We can full
backup of your SBS, then, resize the disk with a bigger C drive, and
restore the SBS to the new C drive. Please note, we do not support restore
SBS to another drive or disk.

For how to backup and restore SBS, please refer to the following page:
Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=49916

Note: We do not support extend any partition.

I hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu (MSFT)

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I have inherited a Windows SBS 2003 server. It resides on a Dell server
with
an ATA Raid card with 3 hard drives configured as one RAID-5 device. The
original logical disk was partitioned into a small C drive and a large E
drive. The C drive was so small that after removing everything that I
could
from it (Exchange, All Shares, etc) I still only have about 150 megs left.
I
have not been able to do anything further with that system due to a lack
of
disk space on the C drive. I cannot even run any Windows updates anymore.
I
am currently backing up the C and E drives using Symantec Recovery which
backs up drive images.

I tried to get around the problem by purchasing a new disk drive (160
gigs),
plugging it into the primaty ATA port on the motherboard, configuring the
new drive as the boot drive (in the Dell's BIOS screens), then restoring
the
new drive from the Symantec backup. After the restore, it attempts to
boot,
but Windows sees this new drive as the H drive, not the C drive, so I get
some weird error messages after it appears to be booting OK (e.g. missing
file on H: blah blah blah) and then the server reboots back to the BIOS
and
the process starts over again.

Two questions:

1. Is there anyway for this configuration to work. Can I get the new drive
to be the C drive?
2. Dell has sent me a utility that will non-disruptively allow me to
extend
the C drive partition. The caveat is that I will need to delete the E
drive
partition first. If I copy all of the files from the E drive, then delete
the E drive and then recreate it after I've extended the C drive
partition,
will the files that I've copied off of the E drive and then recopied back
on
to the new partition have all of the necessary rights that I need? If not,
what do I need to do? Can I restore from the Symantec Recovery backup now
that the E drive will be smaller than the original E drive?





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