Jim Dettman
jimdettman at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 12 08:13:05 CDT 2003
John, <<My question is, is it possible to go get a much larger hard disk, and then somehow transfer the entire contents of the C: drive onto the new drive such that it can be dropped in as the C: drive and yet still be larger and have the extra room available? My understanding of the imaging programs (Ghost and the like) is that they create an exact image of the original which would simply create a small partition on the larger drive.>> Yes. Most drive mfg's (Maxtor, Seagate, etc) include software to transfer the contents of the old drive to the new drive when you purchase a new drive. <<The next issue is that the drive is mirrored. Is there any way to just add two disks and "expand" the existing partition to span the new disks?>> RAID controllers allow a "Virtual Partition" to span multiple drives, so yes it's possible. Without knowing a lot more though, it's hard to say which would be the best course of action. I'd clean out all junk on the "C" drive as a start no matter what. Jim Dettman President, Online Computer Services of WNY, Inc. (315) 699-3443 jimdettman at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:47 AM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] Replacing the C: drive on a server My client as a Windows NT 4x Server with a C: drive down to 80mb free. It had more until yesterday, when he tried to install Access and Outlook. The installs failed due to lack of space and wouldn't even uninstall. He has just plain deleted the directories to get back up to 80mb. Obviously this is bad - Windows doesn't like the C: drive to have no room. My question is, is it possible to go get a much larger hard disk, and then somehow transfer the entire contents of the C: drive onto the new drive such that it can be dropped in as the C: drive and yet still be larger and have the extra room available? My understanding of the imaging programs (Ghost and the like) is that they create an exact image of the original which would simply create a small partition on the larger drive. The next issue is that the drive is mirrored. Is there any way to just add two disks and "expand" the existing partition to span the new disks? John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com