Piece of cake with virtual machines - join the hard drive to another server, expand it using diskpart, join it back to original server. I'm pretty sure Windows 2008 can do a c: expansion natively with diskpart - upgrading may save you a lot of messing about. I'm not sure about the 2008 bit though, some Googling may help
2010/1/22 Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> > 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.html > > 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/> ~ > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
