Resizing Boot Patition W2k3 1

[ILoveIT78]

I have a DC and its boot patition is 3.9 Gigs, so i am running out of space,..the drive itself has 30 Gigs of unpartitioned space..The company is running low on IT budget, so i was trying to find a free way of resizing the C: partition, I tryed Diskpart and it didnt work cause its boot partition...What can i do to accomplish this mission?

 

[porkchopexpress]

If you look 7 posts down from yours you'll see a thread on exactly this subject.

thread931-1448969

 

[ILoveIT78]

Thanks, the only option i see in there that may be usefull for me is to set ghosting option.Unfortunatly i am running it as DC, so i would rather not having to redo the machine.

 

[porkchopexpress]

Is this on RAID hardware or just a single disk?

Your best option really is to create a full back up format the disk and then restore to the new partition this is a production box after all so reliability is key. If you want to be really safe you could image it as well and move important data to an external drive to be double safe.

 

[ILoveIT78]

Ok, Thanks...Its on a regular sata hard drive.
I have two DC's Doesnt it matter that if it was the first DC installed on the Domain.... We have single forest enviroment..because its only 150 users.

 

[porkchopexpress]

Well as you will be putting it back as it was it shouldn't matter but it might be an idea to move your FSMO roles to your second DC.

http://www.petri.co.il/transferring_fsmo_roles.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324801

 

[porkchopexpress]

Alternatively you could treat it as a replacement and dcpromo it so it isn't on the domain anymore then install it as a new DC. After moving the FSMO roles of course.

Take a look here.

thread931-1249467

 

[ILoveIT78]

Yes, thank you...
Honestly i was looking for an alternative option instead of redoing the server.....
One last question, how about my exchange server? its connectors are pointing to this server.
I think once i switch over the roles, and reboot my exchange server it should automatically connect to the new server..right?

 

[porkchopexpress]

Exchange isn't my field i'm afraid so i'm not certain i'd check with the guys in the Exchange forum forum955