[AccessD] Replacing the C: drive on a server

John,

You can use Drive Image 2002 by Powerquest to do this.  One of its
capabilities is to permit a user to make an exact copy of a hard-drive.
One of the options that is available when making a copy of a hard-drive
is the ability to resize the destination drive to fill the entire
unallocated area on the new hard-drive.

I've been using Powerquest's Drive Image and Partition Magic for over
four years and I'm very happy with their products and their tech
support.


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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:47 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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