[AccessD] Replacing the C: drive on a server

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu Jun 12 11:13:32 CDT 2003


To get more space, put another drive in, and move the swap file to it.  That
is probably taking a LARGE chunk of space up.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:47 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


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