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by samuraix

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Does anyone know of any software like powerquest partition magic that does partioning and resizing of ntfs partitions on the fly for a server based platform. I tried partition magic8 and will not install on NT server4....I'm running out of disk space. Thanks

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by dmiles

Partition Magic v5 will work anything over that will not work w/NT Server4

Other options are Partition Commander and
Partition Manager 5.5

by timwalsh

Almost all current software that will perform these types of tasks comes in 2 versions: "standard", which will only install on workstations, and "Enterprise", to be used on servers.

The problem with Answer 1 is being able to find and acquire older versions of software. If you can't find any of these older versions, you will be stuck having to purchase the enterprise version to install on your server. For Powerquest (publisher of PartitionMagic), this is called VolumeManager, and costs almost $600.

by pctech

I am guessing that you are running out of space on the WINNT partiton due to NT's lack of a partiton size of over 4 Gig before SP3 is installed. Should this be the case, you can make some adjustments to NT to move some files to other partitions. Unless you can decipher the dump file NT creates with a system crash, limit the pagefile, on this partition, to 2 Mgs. and relocate the remaining needed pagefile to another partition. This can even offer you a performance gain. You can also do the samefor Temp directory. This will offer you some temporary relief. Be aware that moving the pagefile will result in your having to reboot the server for NT to move the pagefile.

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