Resizing the C drive

I have a windows 2003 server that needs to have the C drive resized. The C
drive disks are dynamic. The server has other hard drives that I could delete
the data off of and use to increase the C drive. The drive is set to raid 1.
thanks for the help.

On 3/10/2009 7:30 PM, Eddie wrote:
> I have a windows 2003 server that needs to have the C drive resized.
> The C drive disks are dynamic. The server has other hard drives that
> I could delete the data off of and use to increase the C drive. The
> drive is set to raid 1.

First off, Windows 2003 (per the Microsoft cook book) does not allow you
to expand the (logical) drive / partition that Windows its self is
booting from, called the system drive.

Is the RAID a hardware or software RAID? If it is a hardware RAID it
does not really matter. If it is a software RAID (you are using dynamic
disks) this gets a bit more complicated.

When you say you have other drives you can delete data off of to
increase the size of the C drive, are you saying that you have other
physical drives that you want to add to the RAID? (As in going from a
RAID 1 to a RAID 5.) Or are you saying that you have other partitions
on the same drive as the system partition to expand the system partition
in to? (Note: I am using the word "drive" for a physical drive and the
word "partition" for a volume / file system / logical ""drive that you
would see in Windows Explorer.)

What ever your configuration of above is, there are ways that you can
expand (or shrink) the system partition. However, they involve 3rd
party utilities, some extra storage space, and quite a bit of time (6 -
72 hours depending on complexity and amount of data you have).

Please don't take offense at this. If you are asking how to do this I
think you might be better off considering getting some professional help
in this for your first time of resizing a system partition as there are
a lot of very big and very important things that can go wrong.



Grant. . . .