Extending scsi Dynamic disk
Buddha16
Austin, Tx Member
So i'm in a pickle and i don't know what to do.........
. My machine is running with 5 scsi hd's and this is how they are laid out.....
Drive 0-16.95g Seagate (c drive on 4g partition)+begining of (D: 13g) drive spanned to Drive 1
DYNAMIC
Drive 1-16.95g Seagate (d drive spanned from c)
DYNAMIC
Drive 2-73g Maxtor 73g Mirrored with Drive 3
DYNAMIC
Drive 3-73g Maxtor 73g Mirrored with Drive 2
DYNAMIC
Drive 4- 36g Hitachi Simple drive
BASIC
I have windows server 2000, and what I want to happen is to move the info on the D: drive (0+1 spanned) to my Hitachi Drive 4, and extend my c: drive to the whole 16g instead of it just being 4g. So the data transfer was just peachy thats done. Now i'm trying to extend the c: drive to the rest of the disk, but i can't because its dynamic and not basic, so i try some software. Well first thing i do is backup. Then i get the idea of making a clone of my c: drive and then extending it, well both acronis and partition magic don't work because it’s a dynamic drive and partition magic doesn't work on servers. So i'm just at a point where I can't think and my brain is fried after waiting for hours for all the backups and restore attempts. So if anyone has any tips i would appreciate it.
. My machine is running with 5 scsi hd's and this is how they are laid out.....Drive 0-16.95g Seagate (c drive on 4g partition)+begining of (D: 13g) drive spanned to Drive 1
DYNAMIC
Drive 1-16.95g Seagate (d drive spanned from c)
DYNAMIC
Drive 2-73g Maxtor 73g Mirrored with Drive 3
DYNAMIC
Drive 3-73g Maxtor 73g Mirrored with Drive 2
DYNAMIC
Drive 4- 36g Hitachi Simple drive
BASIC
I have windows server 2000, and what I want to happen is to move the info on the D: drive (0+1 spanned) to my Hitachi Drive 4, and extend my c: drive to the whole 16g instead of it just being 4g. So the data transfer was just peachy thats done. Now i'm trying to extend the c: drive to the rest of the disk, but i can't because its dynamic and not basic, so i try some software. Well first thing i do is backup. Then i get the idea of making a clone of my c: drive and then extending it, well both acronis and partition magic don't work because it’s a dynamic drive and partition magic doesn't work on servers. So i'm just at a point where I can't think and my brain is fried after waiting for hours for all the backups and restore attempts. So if anyone has any tips i would appreciate it.
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Best plan honestly...? If the data is all backed up (check it first, really check it first), then nuke the disks & partitions.. revert back to basic & rebuild
Well i finally figured it out. I took shorty’s advice and did the following
After a long search for software that would work on the server platform and with dynamic disks, i came upon ghost 2003. :banghead: First I performed a backup to the tape drive, then it was pretty easy from there.
I formatted my second drive (Drive 1) and then removed all the other drives from the system (just in case). I told ghost to clone drive 0 (c: drive) to drive 1 (freshly formatted no partitions on it). Rebooted and it took over. Loaded dos and ghost and after a couple of hours it said it was done.:D
I took my original drive 0 out and moved drive 1 to that spot and rebooted. Seeing that server 2000 screen was great.
So not to bad, very simple. Thanks again for your help shorty!!