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Extending my C:\

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by synapse_z

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I have a server I bought from Dell a few years back. I wanted a RAID 5 but for some reason they sent it with 4 Disks (RAID 5) and only 12 GB of space for my C:\ (D:\ is the RAID-5 438GB)

All are basic disks. Needless to say I need to extend my C:\ as it's almost full.

What's the best way to go about this? I can't extend it because there is no more unallocated space and it's a system boot disk. I ordered a new 160GB disk I wanted to add. Is there a third party solution anyone know of? Any help would be apprciated. Thanks.

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by naughtymonkey

to get an image of the old disk. You will need to burn it to DVD or CD since the rest of the drives are in a RAID set. It will allow you to use multiple CDs or DVDs through the imaging program, just follow the instructions. A free trial of it is available for download through their website.

Install it on the machine and create an image by following the instructions. Also create a boot disk. Once you have the image, install the new hard drive.

Restore the image by booting from the Acronis boot disk you made. Once Acronis is loaded you can remove the boot CD and put your first image CD in. Point it to it for the image to restore and it should prompt you for the other CDs as it goes.

by synapse_z

It's a great product but I'm asking more about the hardware aspect of this operation. I would like to extend the C:\ using a new drive. If possible I would like to avoid having to restore all the information.

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