RAID-5 Low Disk Space

[carpez64]

I'm a computer consultant and my new client has a Dell PowerEdge 2500 with a RAID-5 with 4 36GB hard drives running W2K Server. It has 2 containers. Container 0 is my C drive and its a 4GB partition with 700MB of free space. Container 1 is a 97.7GB partition with over 60GB of free space. I would like to increase the C drive partition. Has anyone out there ran into this problem and how can you increase the C drive partion? Or what else can I do to increase the C drive. This is my first time running into this situation and I am open to any suggestions anybody has.

 

[BernardStewart]

I Have RAID 5 on a workstation with four 40GB drives with WinXP Pro.

The RAID Drive is split into 10 partitions. I used partition Majic to create the partitions and change their size. Not sure if it works ok on win2000 server.

Hope this helps.

 

[carpez64]

What version of Partition Magic you used?

 

[BernardStewart]

I used version 8.0

 

[carpez64]

Thanks, BenardStewart. I'll give it a try.

 

[Hel27n]

Hello,

I have basically the same situation as ‘Carpez64’ except that I am running Win 2003 Server. I have virtually no free space on C.

I have tried to use Partition Magic v.8 but it isn't compatible with this OS. I also downloaded a copy of 'Partition Expert’ and it would not allow me to increase the size of C (perhaps this is to do with RAID-5).

Does anyone know of another way of allocating more space to C for this type of configuration?