Help!!!!
I am trying to re-config or partition my server. My operating system is Microsoft Small Business Server. Right now it is configured with a Perc controller with 3 18 gb hard drives. The drives are set up as "Stripe" sets in the Perc configuration. According to the instructions by Dell, I can re-configure the size using the disk management under Windows Administration. Here is what the disk manager shows as my allocation:
Disk 0
Basic 50.84 GB
Online
32MB_UP
31MB_Fat
Healthy (EISA Configuration)
SBS_Drive(C
9.27 NTFS
Healty (System)
41.51 GB
Free Space
DOS
31MB_FAT
Healthy
I created the dos partition and loaded Paragon Hard Disk Manager 5.5 in an attempt to expand my "C" drive to at least 20GB. When I boot the server using a DOS boot disk then open the Hard Disk Manager. I get an "Invalid code page file" when I open the program and when I try to convert the "C" drive to FAT32 so I can re-size per Paragon instruction with no luck. I also tried to do this in the windows version of the program also but no luck either. I am wondering if the stripe configuration of the drives is causing limitations and maybe a RAID solution would be better? I am a little fuzzy on the capabilities of using RAID over stripe. What I have read on it that the stripe configuration would suffice. This server will be handling all email, Internet, SQL functionality for the company. I have loaded the Small Business Server but can do a reload if necessary.
Thanks for ANY Help!!
I am trying to re-config or partition my server. My operating system is Microsoft Small Business Server. Right now it is configured with a Perc controller with 3 18 gb hard drives. The drives are set up as "Stripe" sets in the Perc configuration. According to the instructions by Dell, I can re-configure the size using the disk management under Windows Administration. Here is what the disk manager shows as my allocation:
Disk 0
Basic 50.84 GB
Online
32MB_UP
31MB_Fat
Healthy (EISA Configuration)
SBS_Drive(C
9.27 NTFS
Healty (System)
41.51 GB
Free Space
DOS
31MB_FAT
Healthy
I created the dos partition and loaded Paragon Hard Disk Manager 5.5 in an attempt to expand my "C" drive to at least 20GB. When I boot the server using a DOS boot disk then open the Hard Disk Manager. I get an "Invalid code page file" when I open the program and when I try to convert the "C" drive to FAT32 so I can re-size per Paragon instruction with no luck. I also tried to do this in the windows version of the program also but no luck either. I am wondering if the stripe configuration of the drives is causing limitations and maybe a RAID solution would be better? I am a little fuzzy on the capabilities of using RAID over stripe. What I have read on it that the stripe configuration would suffice. This server will be handling all email, Internet, SQL functionality for the company. I have loaded the Small Business Server but can do a reload if necessary.
Thanks for ANY Help!!