Hi I purchased a dell server just over a year ago. This was my first ever server and I just answered yes to everything during the dell configuration. It has 150gb raid drives, but it only set c drive as 5gb and d drive as 140gb. we are now running out of space on drive c and windows can't install updates. I have deleted temp files and disk cleanup etc. Is there any way I can reconfigure to 20gb/130gb without having to buy expensive partitioning software? what is microsoft DISKPART. or could I clone this server to a temp one somehow repartition this one and then clone back again. HELP !!!!!

Diskpart can't help you at all. First off start with [very important] what raid level you said yes to. If raid 0 you are in deep s*&^ and we need to make this correct as well as the partition sizes. Create a ASR disks. 1. With your system the way I would do it is back everything up - twice and test the restores so you know they are good. 2. wipe out the entire array - making sure you are at raid 1,5,0+1 or 10 so you have fault tolerance. 3. Repartition to the correct sizes [10-15gig appear OK for OS] 4. Reinstall the OS 5. Use ASR or restore the OS from backup 6. Restore the data to the 2nd partition. Personally I would put my OS on raid 1 and my data on raid 5, 0+1 or 10. I would never put both OS and Data on the SAME raid array. What you have to go thru above is why along with the associated risks of total failure/start from scratch. Proper raid design would also have a spare drive set aside as a Hot Spare. This would be a minumum of 6 drives. Two for raid1, three for raid5 and 1 HS. Question is do you just want to get by or do you want to do it right the first time? Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Hi thanks for reply the unit is a dell rack and I think there is just space for two drives. they are both 145gb it states Array-0 Raid-1 during boot up. I tried Backup ASR but that came up with an error message about shadow copy.