Used this extensively on Physically and Virtual Machines, boot from CD / iso, there's a wizard and a manual steps you can do, click the volume you want to expand commit changes reboot and youre done. Haven't had it fail once.
But Ive also used Gparted and Extpart with excellent results and both free -----Original Message----- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003 Never used this tool to do it, but I've successfully used others before. Moving the D partition may take a while as it requires actually moving the data. -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Resizing C partition in Server 2003 Anyone ever expanded a C partition in a multi-partitioned RAID-5 server? Client needs to do so to add new software. Any time I've thought about doing this it has been: back up twice, verify backups, blow away D partition, expand C, add D partition, restore from backup. Client uses Acronis to back up server and when he talked to their sales people they sold him this $600 program, which I had never heard of: ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 Windows and Linux partitioning tool: create, fix, format, delete, remove, resize and repair Windows and Linux partitions The suite includes the Acronis Partition Expert product which allows you to automatically or manually merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data. It also lets you reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage and much more. --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirector/partitioning.htm l He's says he's going to try this, and I may get to pick up the pieces ;-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
