Question On Disk Mirroring 2

[zoeythecat]

Hi All,

We have a payroll (critical server) in our environment that is running very low on disk space on the C (System) partition. It's a 3 gig partition and down to about 50MEG of free space. This is also a DC in a Windows2003 AD environment. Is it possible to add a drive, configure the 2 drives to mirror each other and then break the mirror of the drive that has the low disk space? What would my options be in this situation? I'm trying to figure out a way where I don't have to completely wipe the system.

Thanks in advance!

 

[captaincrunch00]

Cant you add 2 new drives, set them to mirror, configure them to be an E drive or something, then move the data over there?

 

[zoeythecat]

I could, but the problem is the "C" partition. I need to increase the space for this partition.

 

[Roadki11]

You mentioned nothing of what your current disk configuration is but based on what you posted it looks like its a just a plain old stand alone drive, not raid. I would ghost it disk to disk or to dvd, when restoring the ghost to a new drive you can increase the partition size on the fly. Works slick, ive done it many times, never had a problem.

RoadKi11

 

[zoeythecat]

Roadkill,

Thanks for the reply. Does the ghost image maintain the system partition? Will I be able to boot up off the new drive? Is there any configuration on my part?

Thanks

 

[AckeyG]

I did what the last comment did, i ghosted the old drive to the new, from something like 40gb to a 300gb drive.

I then used the raid 5 option on the drive to mirror onto another 300gb drive and hey presto, all worked and nothing more to do as already configured.

A!

 

[zoeythecat]

Ackey,

Thanks for the reply. Was this also a Windows2003 Domain Controller in an Active Directory environment?

Thanks to everyone who has replied

 

[Roadki11]

I did it on a 2k domain with no problems before, never on a 2k3 domain, 2k3 domain shouldnt be a problem either.

RoadKi11

 

[zoeythecat]

Roadkill,

(And everyone else)

Thanks

 

[zoeythecat]

Roadkill,

What is the name of the Ghost product you used? I researched Symantecs website and did not notice (unless I missed the product name) any ghost products for Windows2003 server (under system requirements)

Thx