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Name: tupac77
Date: September 2, 2008 at 09:49:10 Pacific
OS: win 2003 server
CPU/Ram: 1GB
Product: Dell
Comment:

I have a win 2003 server running on low disk space.
Please advice me on how to mirrow the hard disk and what hard drive do i purchase.
The one there at present is Adaptec Raid 1 SCSI Disk device.
Please tell me how to set this up.
thanks



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Name: UpAndComing
Date: September 2, 2008 at 10:24:08 Pacific
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with the system tag and dell's website, you should be able to figure out pretty quick what type of HDD the machine will take.

bad news, though: if it is your C:\ (or "system") partition that is running out of space, another HDD won't fix the problem: you cannot expand the system partition in a Windows build, unless you're willing to mess with 3rd party software to do it. If it is your C:\ partition where Windows is installed, start by deleting some things. Disk Cleanup can usually find you several gigs worth of compressed old files and stuff that can **usually** be deleted no problem (i just did the same on our accounting server a few weeks ago, and had no problems). Sometimes, log files (*.txt) can gunk up the works too, so you might try a search for *.txt files that have been modified in the last month.

whatever you do, have a backup of the server before you start.


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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill
Date: September 2, 2008 at 16:11:23 Pacific
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UpAndComing

Adding a second or subsequent disk and formatting it as a Dynamic disk can expand capacity of the Original disk. That is the primary purpose of Dynamic disks. Look at the links below of Google Dynamic disks.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...

http://www.petri.co.il/difference_b...


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