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Merging two partitions in 2000 Server

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by rgilliam

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I need to find out if there is a way to merge two partitions on a HD within Wind 2000 server? I have two SCSI HD set up as a RAID level 1. When I was setting up the RAID, I created a partition of only 4 gigs on a much larger drive. Later I when Irealized my error (after bring the server on line) I set up the rest of the space as a D partition. Can I merge these two together within Wind 2000, or do I need to buy some third party software like Partition Magic to do this?

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Ray

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by quintar51

Partition magic does not work for windows 2000 server. Only professional.

If you have nothing in your D drive, you can delete the partition and then right click on My Computer, choose manage.

Go to Disk Managment, right click on the drive, not the partition, and choose upgrade to dynamic disk. Repeat the step for the other hard drive. Once both disks have been upgraded to dynamic, you can then extend your C partition by right clicking on it, in disk management again, and choose 'extend volume'. This will use both hard drives but appear as one volume.

If you can't delete your D partition, then you'll need some 3rd party software. One is called system commander that's similar to partition magic. I don't know if it's compatible with w2k server.

good luck,

by timwalsh

Using the built-in Disk Manager tool, you cannot extend a system or boot volume. You will need 3rd-party software such as that suggested in Answer 2.

Your only other option would be to start from scratch and reload the OS (probably not your 1st choice).

by abubin

Another way of doing this would be to use Ghost to backup your system to an image. Burn the image to a CD or backup in another partition. Latter would be better. Then format and merge the two partition. Then boot up with a ghost bootdisk (make sure you load your scsi drivers so that you can read your scsi drives) and then restore the image back to your main partition.

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