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Harry Athey
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Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject:
Drive C full |
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Stupid me, just installed SBS2003 on a machine with 3 drives and the C drive
is now full. I have already configures lots of junk and don't want to
reinstall everything from scratch.
If there a utility that allows me to copy the contents of the c drive to a
larger drive and increase the partition without doing a full backup and
restore.... Looking for a quick solution.
Symantec Ghost says it doesn't support 2003, otherwise I would just use
that.... |
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:20 am Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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Harry Athey wrote:
| Quote: | Stupid me, just installed SBS2003 on a machine with 3 drives and the
C drive is now full. I have already configures lots of junk and don't
want to reinstall everything from scratch.
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What's on C? How big is the partition? 10 GB is the minimum I'd ever
consider...
Now, if the above is not a problem, and presuming the machine boots & runs,
why not just move what you need elsewhere??
You can move the Exchange stores & logs:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q257184
You can move the user's home directories and shares elsewhere, too. Either
manually, or via one of the ubiquitous wizards, I think - but for that, you
need to post in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs as I don't know how SBS
wants you to do that.
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If there a utility that allows me to copy the contents of the c drive
to a larger drive and increase the partition without doing a full
backup and restore.... Looking for a quick solution.
Symantec Ghost says it doesn't support 2003, otherwise I would just
use that.... |
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Alex Nichol
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Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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Harry Athey wrote:
| Quote: | Stupid me, just installed SBS2003 on a machine with 3 drives and the C drive
is now full. I have already configures lots of junk and don't want to
reinstall everything from scratch.
If there a utility that allows me to copy the contents of the c drive to a
larger drive and increase the partition without doing a full backup and
restore.... Looking for a quick solution.
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What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)
Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.
With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1),
highlight the Free Space in it, and Paste.
Can then highlight and click Resize to resize the new partition up a
bit. Maybe leave some free space so as later to make a new separate
partition it and move data into it. I regard it as good practice to
separate system and programs from data; move the My Documents folder to
a different partition
Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.
Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.
--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit) |
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Frederick Kapmeyer IV
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:
RE: Drive C full |
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I had the smae proble as you had, i filled up my drive c and needed to copy
( ghost ) that drive to an larger one. I went to my local bestbuy/circut
city and i picked up a program called copy commander. It works flawless
every time.. when you buy the cd which is like $20.00 all you ahve to do is
keep your main drive as a master and the other as a slave, but do not create
a partition on the second drive.. copy commander will convery the entire
drive over and partition the drive for you.. trust me this works awesome...
it takes about 2 hours for doing a 40 gig drive to an 80.. |
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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Frederick Kapmeyer IV wrote:
| Quote: | I had the smae proble as you had, i filled up my drive c and needed
to copy ( ghost ) that drive to an larger one. I went to my local
bestbuy/circut city and i picked up a program called copy commander.
It works flawless every time.. when you buy the cd which is like
$20.00 all you ahve to do is keep your main drive as a master and the
other as a slave, but do not create a partition on the second drive..
copy commander will convery the entire drive over and partition the
drive for you.. trust me this works awesome... it takes about 2 hours
for doing a 40 gig drive to an 80..
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This is on a server - even if this product is certified to run on Windows
Server/SBS, I wouldn't. |
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Frederick Kapmeyer IV
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Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:43 am Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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| i did use it, and it works flawlessly.. |
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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Frederick Kapmeyer IV wrote:
| Quote: | i did use it, and it works flawlessly..
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Glad to hear it, but it doesn't look like it's intended for servers, and I
doubt it's supported for SBS. I tend to be very cautious about what I use on
a server. |
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Frederick Kapmeyer IV
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Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:09 am Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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I sis use it on 2003 server operating system.. it does not erase files or
screw up the partition table.. i used this for many businessed including ones
that used small business server, enterprise server and web server.. try it
out it does work. |
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:45 am Post subject:
Re: Drive C full |
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Frederick Kapmeyer IV wrote:
| Quote: | I sis use it on 2003 server operating system.. it does not erase
files or screw up the partition table.. i used this for many
businessed including ones that used small business server, enterprise
server and web server.. try it out it does work.
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Not for me, thanks. If I have a truly downed server, I'm going to use
supported disaster recovery methods - but thanks for the info about the app,
may be useful on workstations. |
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