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I have an NT 4 w/SP6a server using hardware RAID 5 with 4 hard disks configured as one logical drive. In Disk Administrator, Disk 0 is configured as follows:
Partition 1: EISA Utilities - 36 MB
Partition 2: C: drive (FAT) - 2000 MB *This is the system and boot partition
Partition 3: D: drive (NTFS) - 17001 MB
Free Space: 6993 MBI would like to add 2000 MB to the C: drive and allocate the rest for D:. How can I do this?
You can't use the standard PM for this; but they do offer another product - Server Manager that may allow?
Also it's posible that System Commander may have a similar util.
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Its volume manager from Powerquest (Partition Magic people) - but its a lot more expensive than PM. There's also Acronis Partition Expert - which is similarly priced (possibly cheaper) and does work on NT server - but has less functionality (but you can resize partitions).
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You can't add extra space to the C drive since it seems to be using fat16, fat16 is limited to 2GB roughy, so you would have to iether install a utility to allow fat16 to use more space (a dynamic drive overlay) or convert it to NTFS, which is rather hard to do after a system is installed.
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NT supports fat16 to 4Gig limit; but the 'version/style' of fat16 created by NT is slightly different to that of DOS/'9x?
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Not sure why its stated that you have to have server magic to resize the nt partition. This is true only if you want to resize within NT but not required. You can resize outside of NT. I have used Partition Magic [the cheaper version] from a boot disk to resize NT partitions with no problems.
If you want to resize your NT c: there are a couple of things to do first. Convert c: to ntfs. Backup everything on d: and delete the partition. There are known issues trying to resize one partition after the partition you want to grow. Once that is complete boot up on a boot disk containing PM and resize the c: partition. DO NOT exceed 7.8gig as there is a well known bios ntfs boot limit bug. Once complete boot NT and recreat d: then restore. Of course have a good erd and backups. Resizing always contains risk.
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Fred does say he's running NT Server not Workstation. Others here attest that PM will resize Workstation, but not Server; PQ advise the same?
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I have done it for two years to server. Not a problem as I detailed. I actually got the technique from someone else long time ago. They are the same OS with server having the kitchen sink thrown in. If you call PQ they will tell you that you can't. But then they want to sell you the more expensive version - duh! :-) I have even done it from a ME install on a secondary drive to the first drive with NT installed in a multiboot config. Works like a charm. Only problem is if you have partitions behind the NT one and try to keep them. Only way is wipe them out and then resize into the open area. Then put them back into the remaining area after the NT resize.
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