re-partition cost?

s0ck · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:03

The minute you allow yourself to think, "ah, should be ten mins to resize the system volume..." is when you can kiss goodbye to your evening

Vince · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:15

Agree with this. Thats why I would make a mirror and then break it. so that the c is backed up and bootable

awaybreaktoday · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:25

I will do it for £500, where are you based?

Dunks · 28 Feb 2009 at 22:27

VinceB1 said:
Agree with this. Thats why I would make a mirror and then break it. so that the c is backed up and bootable

A mirror as a backup? Right..

sparkey196 · 28 Feb 2009 at 23:09

For under £400 you could buy a pair of new 300gb 15k SAS drives and migrate your entire file systems onto them, keeping the original drives in tact.

Dont forget that you can make symbolic links in NTFS so D:\foo appears under C:\bar.

iaind · 1 Mar 2009 at 11:20

sparkey196 said:
For under £400 you could buy a pair of new 300gb 15k SAS drives and migrate your entire file systems onto them, keeping the original drives in tact.

Dont forget that you can make symbolic links in NTFS so D:\foo appears under C:\bar.

I agree with this - its a much better plan. Youre solving the problem and providing future expansion too. If the disks are SATA it will be even cheaper.
Something like ghost would make the whole thing easy peasy

Jas1975 · 1 Mar 2009 at 14:50

Just skim read the post (so apologies if it has been mentioned and I've missed it) but if the pagefile is on the C: drive, its the easiest thing to move to another disk to grab a fairly large chunk of space back.

Ish · 2 Mar 2009 at 09:50

Thanks for all the ideas/replies.

The problem we have is that if we do it ourselves no one here has to knowledge to fix things if it goes wrong.

We have now re-negotiated the price with our support company and it's now reasonable.

Vince · 2 Mar 2009 at 10:11

DunK1 said:
A mirror as a backup? Right..

So if you mirror a disk, then break the mirror you don't have a copy of the partition...?

News to me.

yashiro · 2 Mar 2009 at 10:51

If it's a mirror of the boot disk you'd need to put the MBR on the mirror clone too of course.

Vince · 2 Mar 2009 at 10:58

yashiro said:
If it's a mirror of the boot disk you'd need to put the MBR on the mirror clone too of course.

I am not sure about sbs2003 but I know that server 2008 will allow you to do this in disk management. Must admit I have been really impressed with the disk options in 2008.

theheyes · 2 Mar 2009 at 16:32

s0ck said:
The minute you allow yourself to think, "ah, should be ten mins to resize the system volume..." is when you can kiss goodbye to your evening

This is so true it's almost not funny, but I laughed anyway. :cool:

JonnyT · 2 Mar 2009 at 16:39

Are both volumes on the same RAID controller and physical RAID array?
What RAID card is it?
What sort of server is it? (Dell, HP, IBM)

It might be worth investigating the software tools that come with the RAID card, as sometimes they can do clever stuff like online volume capacity expansion or resizing...