repartition a raid nt server setup?

[rem715]

Hello,
I'm not an IT but because I know more about pc's than anyone else in the office, I'm the one who has to deal with our tech. support company. I'm looking for a second opinion. Our office network runs off of NT and the hard drive configuration consists of two hd's in a raid configuration with 512 mb ram. Two partitions were created during the installation in late '99, one for the os (C and one for data (E. The partition for the os is running out of space (about 80 megs currently). Our IT guy is saying that the low mem is causing the problems we've been having and also states that you can't re-partition the C: drive to make more room and thus the only solution is to buy two new hard drives and reconfigure the os. Is this true? Can't we just use partition magic or some other program and make more room on the C: drive partition. (We have room to spare on the E Thanks for any help.

 

[Nothinman]

If you've used NT's built in software RAID you're pretty much screwed.

If it's real hardware RAID you should be ok, long as there's a DOS driver for the RAID array so Partition Magic can read the drives, and you might be able to add another drive to the RAID set (depends on the hardware, some do allow this some don't) and then use Partition Magic to resize the partition without taking space from E:

And yes, Partition Magic works fine with NTFS, although make sure you have alteast 6.0 if you've installed SP4 on the NT box.

 

[JBark]

I've found that resizing the boot partition at all under NT causes my machine to never boot again I don't know why, but this always seems to be the case. Do you have the swap file on the c: drive still? Try moving it to another partition, that should free up quite a bit of space (500MB - 1GB at least). I can't remember the exact steps for doing this under NT, but I think it is on one of the tabs under the System Properties.

 

[Nothinman]

I've found that resizing the boot partition at all under NT causes my machine to never boot again I don't know why, but this always seems to be the case

I've done it hundreds of times, literally, and it works almost every time. If you're using NT 4 you can't go over 7G cause MS never updated their bootloader to support LBA32, they just suggest you upgrade to Win2K.

 

[rem715]

thanks for the responses folks I really appreciate it.