Repartion primary drive in server 2003 server

[chacks_25]

i have taken over as sys admin in my company.we have a 2003 server as ads and they have alloted only 12 gb for primary partition and rest of 500 gb for extended partition.now its showing low space and eveyday i clear something to gain a few mb's.now i have rchd a satuaration point where i have nothing left to delete.there r 3 drives available and raid is configured.i wanted to know that if i backup my data and re partion the primary drive,will this affect the raid config...shld i reconfigure the raid for the new partitions..hope iam clear.pls reply at the earliest.

[Jan Soska]

hello, Win2003 can not resize system partition. A recommend use 3rd party utils (like ghost/acronis) - risky, OR and preffered - backup whole server and redesign it again.

Jan

[chacks_25]

Thank you dear for the reply..i have decided to go ahead and re partion the primary drive,but need to know if i have to reconfigure RAID..coz i have not had a experience in RAID config...so if i re partion will i have to so some settings in RAID...hope my question is not stupid one...

[Jan Soska]

Hello, how to start.
1. check diks management in windows. Maybe you have only 1 drive (from raid) and then 2 partitions.
2. find out design of your raid array via Hp Array Configurator utility in windows. Confirm disk layout - 3 drives in other raid5 ?

if you have only 1 drive form raid, you do not need to touch raid config, just need to repartition filesystem - easier for you.

jan