MS Small Business Server 2003 Re-partition

[noiseordinance]

Hi there,

My company had a consultant set up our SBS2003 server a year or two ago. We have 150GB of drive space on the server: 25GB for the boot partition and 125GB as storage. The 25GB boot partition has proven to be far too small, as we have done a ton of different steps to save space (moving swap file and other various directories onto the D: storage partition), yet we often dip down to as low as 2GB of free space on the boot partition. Our wonderful consultant no longer returns phone calls so I'm trying to go this alone. Is there a recommended partition utility that can be used to resize the active boot partition without reinstalling SBS 2003? I think 45GB would be a bit more suitable than 25GB...

Thank you

 

[SteveRoadWarrior]

You can also move the $NT service pack and windows update folders from the c:\windows area to the D drive. This may help buy a little time.

Your bigger issue is the choice of repartitioning software. For the money, Acronis does a decent job. I'd try that (after doing a full image, of course). There's Symantec Volume Manager, but it's really expensive (just a juiced up version of PowerQuest Partition Magic).

You can also image the drives and then wipe out the partitions and restore the images back, this time with different sizes. That works too.

All these maneuvers are dangerous and should only be done after you have backed up the system two ways and verified both of the restore mechanisms work. So, you want to be able to restore from 1) an image and 2) regular backup software.

 

[LostinIT]

You'll need a software product like Acronis to repartition the drives. With products like Acronis, you boot to the disk and it will walk you through repartitioning. If you're not comfortable with this, as it can get very technical, I would call a service provider to get this done for you.

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