I have a customer that has a Dell power edge tower, about a year and a half to 2 years old. For some strange reason Dell made 2 partitions on a 250gig HD. The first partition is the boot/system partition and that is 12gig in size. The second partition is empty and has the rest 220 some gig. So wind 2003 ate up some space, the registry some of the programs, now they are out of space.
This is what I want to do, resize the volume with Acronis disk director server. I tried it on another win 2003 server with pata HDs and I could resize the volume.
The customers Dell server I am about 90% sure it is pata, although I think they have a raid controller. Probably a stripe set not sure.
Not sure if it is even raid, i iam sure that the HDs ribbon cable goes to a controller in a pci slot, so probably raid.
The customer only has about 600meg to a gig of data, just some folders on the server that are mapped. So I gues I will uninstall some programs and when reinstalling use the custom feature and install on the 2nd partition. so i will have room to install acronis. What I want to know does resizing a partition matter if you are using ANY of the raid schemes.? I would like to clone the hd , i am kind of paranoid that something will go wrong. When I set this up and way b4 I knew about the partitions I kept handing the guy his software and win2003 server cd , he kept laying them down somewhere else, so i am not even sure if he has the win 2003 cd and cdkey anymore. Do you think I should worry about the BU or just do the resize ?
This is what I want to do, resize the volume with Acronis disk director server. I tried it on another win 2003 server with pata HDs and I could resize the volume.
The customers Dell server I am about 90% sure it is pata, although I think they have a raid controller. Probably a stripe set not sure.
Not sure if it is even raid, i iam sure that the HDs ribbon cable goes to a controller in a pci slot, so probably raid.
The customer only has about 600meg to a gig of data, just some folders on the server that are mapped. So I gues I will uninstall some programs and when reinstalling use the custom feature and install on the 2nd partition. so i will have room to install acronis. What I want to know does resizing a partition matter if you are using ANY of the raid schemes.? I would like to clone the hd , i am kind of paranoid that something will go wrong. When I set this up and way b4 I knew about the partitions I kept handing the guy his software and win2003 server cd , he kept laying them down somewhere else, so i am not even sure if he has the win 2003 cd and cdkey anymore. Do you think I should worry about the BU or just do the resize ?
