Proliant 350 NT4 4G patition to 10G

[Juan_31]

Hi.

i have ?? problem,

I have a new server proliant 350 with Raid 5.

This server must replace a old PDC HL2 in a NT4 domain.

i will upgrade the proliant server from NT4 to 2K after replacing the old PDC server.

when i configure the new server with the SmartStart CD, the bigest partition that i coud create is a 4G.

here is the problem... i need a 10G partition to upgrade to windows 2k.

The raid 5 does not allow me to play with the partition with a software like Server magic.

So How can i upgrade from 4 to 10 G?

Juan

[Tom Mucha_1]

Hi Juan,

During the smartstart install it SHOULD let you make it 10GB. But if your not looking to do a reinstall - Did you create 1 logical drive during the install? If you did, you should be able to boot into server magic and as long as the drive isn't dynamic, you could resize the partition. If you already created another parition it could get trickier since you first have to resize the D: drive, then you can change the C: drive.

[Juan_31]

there are 4HD of 36G in Raid 5

I did try to reinstall with SmartDisk,
i choose:
NT server 4.0
NTFS
and 10000mb.

then error message:
The partition cant be superior than 4000MB


I dont mind to scrap the OS. and i dont have eny data on the server.

i'm stock with a 4G partition..

and i need to install Windows NT 4 first.

then upgrade to 2K

...

[Tom Mucha_1]

I'm sorry, I thought I read it as a new install of 2k... then upgrading an old server!


Can't do it. Max nt4 bootable volume is 8gb, but you have to set that up by hand (can't be done in smartstart). If this is what you want to do, you'll have to use servermagic AFTER you upgrade to 2000.

Once again, sorry for not reading your question right! ;-)