Removing the EISA Utility partition in NT

[Eric Williams_4]

I added space to my array and want to extend a drive with the new free space. I can't do that because I have too many partitions for NT 4.0. If I remove my EISA Utilites partition, will that affect anything, and can I bring it back after I extend the drive?

[Andrzej Kowalik]

Hmm, you can delete you EISA partition, but you lost possibility to enter your serwer BIOS settings. To create this partition again, you must have free space on the hdd beginning.
I don't remember it well, but are you sure that NT recognize this partition and count to max permited number?

[Eric Williams_4]

NT does recognize the partition, but I don't know if it is counting that towards the limited number of partitions. I added 18 G to the array. I could delete the EISA Utility partion, add about 17 G to the drive, and leave the remaining 1G to rebuild the EISA Utility? And how was I reinstall or re-add that partition with those utilities?

[Oleg Koroz]

If you remove it you loose access to DATA and boot partition, in order to recreate SCU you will be needed to recreate Array and it will cause data loss on others.

[Andrzej Kowalik]

I don't think that you loose data. You must change boot.ini entries.

[Terry Hutchings]

Most likely you currently have something similar to this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT

You should get the machine to come back up correctly by changing the partition to 1.