Partition magic with mirroring 1

[Scott99]

Does anyone knoe if Partition magic works on hard drives that are mirrored. With have C drive of 4gb and D drive of 12GB and would like to increase the size of the C Partition. While I have seen Partition magic work well with regular hard drives I'm a little concerned that it might screw things up. Can't find any relevant info on their website. Would welcome any advise from those of you that have come across this before.

Platform: Windows NT 4
Hardware: Compaq Reliant server

 

[GiaBetiu]

First, you know, for Windows NT Server you need Partition Magic for Servers (Server magic, sau PM Professioanl).
Try to launch it! It will tell you what is there. As I know (from NetWare) Partition Magic (Server Magic) will find the mirror, and wil ask you.
Try to see if in NT case PM is able to see that tehre is a mirror. Once you don't change anything, nothing bad can happen.
If PM will recognize the mirror, then you are lucky.

Gia Betiu
m.betiu@chello.nl
Computer Eng. CNE 4, CNE 5

 

[oubchy01]

Partition Magic is supposed to be for workstations only.
There is another product by PowerQuest called
"VolumnManager" that is for Windows NT/2000 servers.
It works on RAID volumes.

 

[Scott99]

Powerquest discontinued the software so I'll have to hunt around some resellers for it.

Many thanks for your help!!

 

[lifegard2]

PM won't work for servers. I found this out the hard after staying late one night to do it. Needless to say, I stayed late for nothing.

I'm always a little nervous about resizing partitions. If you get VolumeManager, I would suggest breaking the mirror first and setting one drive aside. By doing this you have a completely backed up HDD in case the resize goes south. After you do your resize and everything looks good, then I'd add the drive back in and restablish the mirror.

Of course there is another way to do this. . .Ghosting will work and allow you to resize the partitions at the same time. This is a little more tedious and takes more planning, but it's a good work-around if you don't feel like shelling out the $1000 for Volume Manager.