Create a new partition on a RAID 5 big disc Our company has a Dell Server 2950 with 3 500GB SATA hard discs. RAID 5 is currently in use and total capacity is now 1 TB. The 1 TB had already been partitioned into Drive C (12 GB) and Drive D (988 GB). Both drives have data inside. I just used the Acronis PartitionExpert to resize the partition for Drive D to 488 GB and make new room for new partition 500 GB. Up to that moment, everything went very well. Once I would like to create a new partition using the 500 GB's partition. Windows went crazy and I tried to set a new drive letter on that new partition. The Acronis PartitionExpert hanged and also the server. Before I setup an IIS on Drive D for Web Service, I can still browse our company web site for some while. However, I can't since Saturday. I did everything using VNC and I felt very worry about all the data in Drive D will be lost. What can I do now?

First of all, you really don't want your web page hosted on that machine. That is a disaster waiting to happen. I would uninstall IIS first and see what happens.

It would appear you used a workstation product on a server system. http://www.fileboost.net/directory/... only mentions workstation OS.

on windows OS's the best tool to use is diskpart, though every server support person will tell you there is a 50% chance of losing your data if you use it (or any other similar tool) so the best action plan would be to back everything up, repartition, reinstall the OS and restore the data from backup. btw, from my own vast experience with Dell servers, just a quick piece of advice: make sure all the firmware is always up to date - Dell releases updates only when they fix really serious issues, that might be critical tot he server's functionality Real stupidity always beats Artificial Intelligence //T.Pratchett