RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-25 Thread tony patton 
+1 on Paragon Partition Manager, it's my tool of choice when I need to 
resize partitions.

Haven't tried it on a RAID 5 array tho.

Regards

Tony Patton
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From:
"Christopher Bodnar" 
To:
"NT System Admin Issues" 
Date:
22/01/2010 20:05
Subject:
RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003



As others have mentioned Acronis DiskDirector does the job, and we use it 
here extensively on ESX guests. The problem we ran into with DiskDirector 
is the lack of x64 support and no support for Windows Server 2008. We have 
since moved to Paragon's Partition Manager 10.0 Server Edition. Almost 
identical to DiskDirector, but it also supports x64 and Windows Server 
2008. 
 
YMMV
 
 
Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Infrastructure Service Delivery
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003
 
-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
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.html
 
He's says he's going to try this, and I may get to pick up the pieces ;-)
 
 
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re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-24 Thread Juned Shaikh 
Another option: (Try only after taking a full bare metal backup)

If both the C and D are both are of same RAID group and are logically 
partitioned - convert the volumes to Dynamic. Shrink the D drive by let's say 
10GB and expand the C drive by 10GB. 

My wording may be slightly obtuse, but crux is converting disk to dynamic 
should work for you as well..
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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-23 Thread Carl Houseman 
I used gparted once on a Vista machine and afterwards it needed repairing
(using the install DVD) before it would boot.   I tossed the gparted CD in
the trash.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

I've used GParted a number of times (never on an Array, always on virtual
servers) without issue, until three days ago when running Gparted on my
2008 VM caused it to blue screen and I could NOT boot into the server at
all afterwards.  Please make sure you backup your data before running
GParted. Ug.

JR


Original Message:
-
From: Matt Plahtinsky cbusitl...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:02:25 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003


That's a good question.  I've only tried gparted on a raid once.  It
was a raid 1 and insted of seeing it as one drive to adjust the
partiton it showed it as two identical drives with identical
partitions.. I decided not to use it because I didn't know what would
happen if I resized the system partition on both drives of the raid 1.
It was a production box and didn't want to screw it up.

I just got two new servers for a client and will have to test it on
one after I load the OS.

On 1/23/10, Angus Scott-Fleming  wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2010 at 19:36, Eisenberg, Wayne  wrote:
>
>> +1 for GPartEd. Great tool.
>
> Can GPartEd do this on RAID arrays?
>
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> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> 1-520-290-5038
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>
>
>
>
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Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-23 Thread jesse-r...@wi.rr.com 
I've used GParted a number of times (never on an Array, always on virtual
servers) without issue, until three days ago when running Gparted on my
2008 VM caused it to blue screen and I could NOT boot into the server at
all afterwards.  Please make sure you backup your data before running
GParted. Ug.

JR


Original Message:
-
From: Matt Plahtinsky cbusitl...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:02:25 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003


That's a good question.  I've only tried gparted on a raid once.  It
was a raid 1 and insted of seeing it as one drive to adjust the
partiton it showed it as two identical drives with identical
partitions.. I decided not to use it because I didn't know what would
happen if I resized the system partition on both drives of the raid 1.
It was a production box and didn't want to screw it up.

I just got two new servers for a client and will have to test it on
one after I load the OS.

On 1/23/10, Angus Scott-Fleming  wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2010 at 19:36, Eisenberg, Wayne  wrote:
>
>> +1 for GPartEd. Great tool.
>
> Can GPartEd do this on RAID arrays?
>
> --
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> 1-520-290-5038
> +---+
>
>
>
>
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> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>

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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-23 Thread Carl Houseman 
Any bootable partitioning tool that doesn't run under Windows can access
drives that have BIOS support enabled.  If a RAID partition is bootable,
then it has BIOS support enabled.

However performance through the BIOS can be really bad sometimes and any
repartitioning that involves resizing or sliding may take a lot longer than
expected.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

On 22 Jan 2010 at 19:36, Eisenberg, Wayne  wrote:

> +1 for GPartEd. Great tool.

Can GPartEd do this on RAID arrays?

--
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GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
+---+



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Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-23 Thread Matt Plahtinsky 
That's a good question.  I've only tried gparted on a raid once.  It
was a raid 1 and insted of seeing it as one drive to adjust the
partiton it showed it as two identical drives with identical
partitions.. I decided not to use it because I didn't know what would
happen if I resized the system partition on both drives of the raid 1.
It was a production box and didn't want to screw it up.

I just got two new servers for a client and will have to test it on
one after I load the OS.

On 1/23/10, Angus Scott-Fleming  wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2010 at 19:36, Eisenberg, Wayne  wrote:
>
>> +1 for GPartEd. Great tool.
>
> Can GPartEd do this on RAID arrays?
>
> --
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> 1-520-290-5038
> +---+
>
>
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

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Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-23 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming 
On 22 Jan 2010 at 19:36, Eisenberg, Wayne  wrote:

> +1 for GPartEd. Great tool.

Can GPartEd do this on RAID arrays?

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
+---+




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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Eisenberg, Wayne 
+1 for GPartEd. Great tool.



-Original Message-
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

+1
Just last night on a vm.

-Original Message-
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

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:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
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:angu...@geoapps.com]
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
;-)


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Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread James Rankin 
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 

> 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 ;-)
>
>
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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar 
As others have mentioned Acronis DiskDirector does the job, and we use it
here extensively on ESX guests. The problem we ran into with DiskDirector
is the lack of x64 support and no support for Windows Server 2008. We have
since moved to Paragon's Partition Manager 10.0 Server Edition. Almost
identical to DiskDirector, but it also supports x64 and Windows Server
2008. 

 

YMMV

 

 

Chris Bodnar, MCSE

Sr. Systems Engineer

Infrastructure Service Delivery

Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services

Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com

Phone: 610-807-6459

Fax: 610-807-6003

 

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
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.html

 

He's says he's going to try this, and I may get to pick up the pieces ;-)

 

 

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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Eldridge, Dave 
+1
Just last night on a vm.

-Original Message-
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

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:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] 
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:angu...@geoapps.com] 
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
;-)


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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
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:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] 
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:angu...@geoapps.com] 
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
;-)


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~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Damien Solodow 
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:angu...@geoapps.com] 
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
;-)


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Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming 
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! ~
~   ~