Flatten & rebuild server

[biglebowski]

Hi,I've just started at a new company and have been asked to look at our SBS as the C: drive has only 28MB free space. I've managed to recover 800MB of space but as the C: partition is only 12 GB I want to flatten and rebuild the server with a 30 GB C: partition.

The guy who set the server up also has all the email and applications installed on the C: drive and I want to move these to the D: drive.Is there a white paper or guide on how to backup and rebuild a SBS2003?

Ps yes I've googled it already just wanted some advice from someone who may have been here before.

 

[mofusjtf]

You can use gparted which will allow you to resize your partitions or you can performan a cold image and the restore adjusting your partition sizes during the restore.

You can also move things off the C drive such as the I386 folder, the ClientApps folder and Exchange Databases.

 

[wahnula]

A 12GB HDD speaks to me that the motherboard and server hardware is OLD...nothing wrong with that but there are incredible gains to be had with newer hardware, and it's not very expensive these days. SBS loves RAM and even ECC RAM is super-cheap right now.

Depending on the number of users I might recommend looking at an entirely new rig to re-install SBS to and import the data either through migration or individual client configuration.

Moving Exchange is easy:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821915

Tony

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