Need more space on C: partition 6

[fitfixer]

Last year a contractor installed a SQL based package on our Proliant ml370 member server, the trouble is they put it on the C partition!
It has grown and now the boot drive is running out of space, the best option is probably to get him back to reinstall on another drive, but can I make the partition bigger? I know Partition Magic will not work, but are there any other utilities out there that could move or merge a NTFS partition on an NT4 Server
Any suggestion would be welcome
NT4 Server SP6a
not PDC or BDC, running SQL 7 with Win98/ W2K clients
Thanks

 

[mrbase]

Hi,

you could check out the url below, if you have more partitions on the same disk with enough free space resizing them is probably the fastest way for your problem.

A more scalable sollution would however be moving the SQL software away from the OS partition.

But that is up to you

http://www.powerquest.com/volumemanager

If i read it correctly the volumemanager can do all the things that you want.

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[browolf]

there's a server version of partition magic for NT. it used to be called "server magic".
except its called "volume manager" now

http://www.powerquest.com/volumemanager/

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[wolluf]

Acronis Partition Expert has been recommended elsewhere on this forum as an inexpensive partition manager that works on servers. As you probably know, PowerQuest (Partition Magic) do have a server product, Volume Manager, but its a lot more expensive than PM.

 

[epohl]

If this is SQL I assume you mean the databases are growing. It would be easy to simply just detach the databases move them to a different drive and then reattach them. You will not even have to uninstall SQL. And if this consultant did actually put you Databases on your C drive I would not hire him again.

 

[fitfixer]

Thanks for the suggestions,
Yes, I do mean that the database itself is growing,perhaps moving the DB is the answer to my problem, as the NT4 Server boot partition cannot be bigger that 4 GB, I am going to have to do this anyhow,
If I just move the folders to a new drive and change the ODBC data sources an the clients, will this work?

 

[mugs82]

Here's the Microsoft Article you should read:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;224071

 

[epohl]

Actually the boot partition can be 7.8 GB but I would not worry with that as the databases should not be on the C partition anyway. To move the databases you will simply need to do a detach/attach. You will NOT have to change ODBC data sources on the clients. This article will describe what you need to do.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;224071

 

[fitfixer]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys,
In the end I had to call the DB company back in and get them to move the database to a bigger drive, they insisted on doing this themselves, I found that by moving the virtual memory swapfile from the C partition gave me enough free space to keep the show rolling until this was done,
But I learned a valuable lesson