Partition utility for Win 2000 Server

[Giraffe }{unter]

Need to extend a 2gb partition on an older windows 2000 server with a SCSI drive.


I already tried Ghosting it to a larger IDE drive, but that didn't work...

For some reason it's got a 2 gig partition and a 3 gig partition, I want to steal from the 3 gig so I can run some updates. Any suggestions of a good reliable software solution for w2k server

[dzjepp]

I was trying a similar thing here

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10766

I'd say Acronis True Image and their Disk Director apps are really good. I sort of figured out how to do it, I needed to create a disk director boot cd (so then there are no locked dependencies on the system), but I have to get a new hd I think, because this one is giving me other troubles.

Have you tried a bootable disk from the partitioning software?

[Giraffe }{unter]

The problem is most software will not run on 2000 or NT server.

[R00k]

If you do it right it should. If you choose Disk From Image it might not work, but if you create the partition on the new blank disk manually, then Partition From Image should work okay.

edit: That's just theoretical though, because I'm not sure how Win2000 would handle a drive that just suddenly changed attributes like that. PnP should take care of it, but I'm not sure when it comes to the system drive.

[Giraffe }{unter]

I already tried Ghosting it to a larger IDE drive, but that didn't work...

hmmm, that should work.

Ghosted from a SCSI drive to an IDE drive.


I am trying Paragon Partition Manager 7 Professional

> http://www.partition-manager.com/comparison.htm

It's mid progress right now, hopefully this will work, or I'll do what I have been meaning to do with this server for a loooong time.

FORMAT C:/

[dzjepp]

Acronis supports Win 2000

[Underpants?]

switch to dynamic volumes and shut the fuck up. :icon14:
otherwise, you can always run a native backup, re-install and restore. As long as you're not running db apps.
don't forget to shut the fuck up.

[Giraffe }{unter]

Paragon Partition Manager 7 Professional did it quick and easy from 1 boot floppy.

@dzjepp

I wanted to resize the current drive just shrink the D and extend the C, not image.

[dzjepp]

Yeah, that's what acronis disk director does

[raw]

I just upgraded one of our IBM servers @ work. We took the current 200 GB RAID 5 and upgraded it to a 400 GB RAID5. We had to completely replace every drive since it's a 2U rackmount server and do a full restore from tape. The restore took 12 hours but we're talking about 200 GB of data. Didn't have any major snags which was cool.

The moral of the story is...Always have a backup.

[Disruptor]

I just upgraded one of our IBM servers @ work. We took the current 200 GB RAID 5 and upgraded it to a 400 GB RAID5. We had to completely replace every drive since it's a 2U rackmount server and do a full restore from tape. The restore took 12 hours but we're talking about 200 GB of data. Didn't have any major snags which was cool.

The moral of the story is...Always have a backup.

Speaking of RAID and also having a backup, we had a few cluster servers at work sharing a 500GB RAID 10 array, well the array decided to shit itself, and we had to restore from tape. It took forever to restore the 400+ GB, but at the end, all the data was there.

[VertigoX]

Try this if nothing else works...

Backup your shit.
Ghost that particular partition (to another machine).
Erase all the partitions on that drive.
Recreate the partion size you need on that drive.
Dump the ghost image on that new partition (from the other machine).

I however have become spoiled with SANs, nothing like using a web interface to increase a volume size.