Hi, I just took over a network at a small school. I had nothing to do with the set up of the server which took place 3-4 years ago. Whoever set up the server did so by setting up a raid 1 on a 147 gig Seagate scsi drive set. They set up a 10 gig partition for the root, c drive and the remaining space for the d drive, which is used for the data. The c drive has about 450 MB of space left. I have cleared out all that is possible and compressed the drive. I had to stop updating Windows due to the lack of space. I need to make the c drive larger without loss of data. I have good backups on an external drive that is usb 2.0. My school is hard pressed for cash and I am out of non cash options. If I backed up the data to a cheap ide drive in the server and wiped the d drive, can I add 10 or more gig to the c drive, and make the remaining space the d drive and restore from the ide drive without endangering the O/S on the c drive? I have Adaptec 2130 slp raid controller. The courtesy help from adaptec has run out and they charge now. My school has no money at this point to pay them. I have a personal 250 gig sata 2 drive that I could use for this. I checked out Partition Commander Server edition, and they said that with hardware raid their product would do the job, but the school is shying away from the 300 dollar price tag! I know that when it comes down to it, in the face of a failure, money is produced. I am trying to avoid the aggravation. So if anyone can lend me a helping hand, I would appreciate it! I am presently waiting for the delivery of an external floppy drive to create an ASR disc. When I started they didn’t have a complete backup that included system state and I have to document everything that should have been properly documented from the start. I know, what’s new! Educating the educators is challenging and I welcome the challenge. Thanks in advance!
George
