Small C:\ partition on NT server

Partition Magic 8.0 does work with NTFS:

www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

"Enlarge NTFS partitions "hot" - No rebooting is required when expanding an NTFS partition, not even the system partition"

Before I went to using Partition Magic (ver.6 or higher work) I would ask myself why did he do it in first place. I would hazard a guess that he wanted it small to more easily manage and easier to troubleshoot if something goes wrong. Also, ask yourself if what you want to add to the directory absolutely has to reside in the root before making any changes.

The problem with Partition Magic is that it will not work with server operating systems. You would have to use Partition Magic Pro (@$250).

If you don't want to spend that kind of money, and absolutely MUST have more space, your only other alternative would be to repartition and reinstall the OS.

Actually, you need VolumeManager from PowerQuest (the makers of PartitonMagic). VolumeManager is the WinNT/2K Server version of PartitonMagic (normal PM and PMPro do not work on NT4 Server).
The link to the page for info is here:
http://www.powerquest.com/volumemanager/

"Product Overview
Quickly and easily reconfigure volumes/partitions on Windows NT/2000 Servers for storing valuable resources such as data files, applications and operating systems. In addition to powerful volume configuration management, you can quickly identify all basic disk volume/partition and server information on all servers or grouped servers in a LAN/WAN environment, display and monitor uptime, and analyze storage usage via PowerQuest StorageMonitor - a web-based console included with PowerQuest VolumeManager."

The price is $486 at cdw.com

hope this helps

If your server can afford some down-time, and you have a copy of it, you can use Ghost to image the system partition up to another shared volume.

Note: use a NT boot floppy with NIC drivers - get it from www.nu2.nu - or email me, and I can send you a self-extracting floppy image with a ton of NIC drivers already configured.

Then you can image it back down to the server specifying the partition size you need (be aware that Microsoft only supports 8Gb bootable NTFS for Win NT 4.0 partitions).

This might be the cheapest way (and not as time-consuming as rebuilding the server) - I believe that Drive Image Pro does it as well, but I've not used that as much...

Let me know if I can be of any further help!
Rob

Make sure this 1Gb partition is not FAT, a lot of admins did this years ago, supposedly to make troubleshooting easier ?
Partition Magic will resize both FAT and NTFS partitions.

best solution is do not install any programs ,store data on c drive.
move page file to other drive .also set temp internet file on other drive.
If possible uninstall program from c: drive & install it on other partition.

I don't think the previous sys admin was incompetent. Keeping the OS partition small forces you to NOT install program files in the same partition. That helps prevent fragmentation. Like the previous respondent said...no files, apps or data in the OS partition and move temp and page files to another partition. Page files are even faster when set up on a separate drive.

I think your previous sys admin was on the right track!

if resizing the partition is your choice of action, try Server Magic, works like a charm.

Do you have a good backup server that can totally backup/restore the system? If so, you could simply do a full backup [probably with an open file agent] and either put in a new hard drive, or repartition the one that is there. I would recommend chosing a new hard drive, in case anything goes wrong.

On the other hand, perhaps you should just solve the problem of why the system partition is filling up, as the original admin did not intend it to be used this way.

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