Can I add to the C: drive from unallocated?

[kdeans]

Server 2003 Enterprise, IBM xSeries 346 mirrored.
When Server 2003 installed, it created a C: drive of only 3.42 Gb out of the 33.9 available (I didn't notice anywhere to specify otherwise). Is there a way to add the unallocated space (30.47 Gb) to the C: drive? This is a Domain Controller. It's twin is also in the same state. All articles I can find state that this cannot happen on a system or boot volume, whether Basic or Dynamic. Am I reading correctly or missing something? If I have to rebuild to maximize the C: drive, at what point will I encounter the option to use all of the available drive space?
Thanx,
Novell Convert

 

[mrdenny]

You are correct you can not extend the boot device. You'll need to rebuild the server to change the drive size.

Denny
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[MarkLappin]

Have never tried it on a server or any type of RAID'd system, what about something like Partition magic which lets you change your partition sizes while preserving data?
(I dont' like this way, I know a bunch of people who use it, I've done it once or twice and never on a server, I'd go for the rebuild option personally).


Mark

 

[kdeans]

I am going to decomission one and rebuild and then the other but I still don't recall where in the setup screens I had the option to specify how much space to use for C:. This will happen after holidays, so I won't have a chance to read anything further until Aug. 8.
Thanx

 

[MarkLappin]

The two Dell servers I got at a lawfirm both came with a 15gb partition for the OS and everything else on one big chunk, I didn't setup the first and didn't liike the 15gb cuz I had to constantly go move files and such off of it to keep at least some space free.

When I got the other one, it came with the OS installed and a 15GB partition and a 400GB for the big one, I didn't use the auto recovery CD, I went into the raid controller and setup three drives on the raid array at the sizes I wanted then when I ran the reinstall your OS it gave me the windows "choose your installation drive" and you can fdisk style stuff through there, well since I had the raid system configure the volumes, I just chose the 20GB volume I had allocated for it.

Mark

 

[technome]

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[maddog12321]

Hello All,
ok... you can add the space to a partition but however doin it through windows you can only make it a folder on the c drive instead of its own drive... but unless you do it through a raid and combine then then you cant(but remember when setting up a raid it erases everything on the drives). with windows it could be like lets say you have a 15gb hard drive and a 200 spare... the 200 could be like c:\whatever and that folder would redirect everything to the 200 hard drive. if this is what you wanna do then ask plz...
Peace,
Gary