Re: [NTISP] Expanding my Drive C: in NT Server 4.0

Danny Sinang ( (no email) )
Sun, 30 Jan 2000 09:30:09 +0800

Hi Josh,

If I do move the data to another disk and use NT's Disk Administrator to
expand the disk space, will the data in the original disk need to be erased
?

Exactly how do I do expansion in Disk Administrator ?

- Danny

----- Original Message -----
From: Josh Hillman <admin-maillist@talstar.com>
To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [NTISP] Expanding my Drive C: in NT Server 4.0

> From: Danny Sinang <danny@uplink.com.ph>
> > An NT 4.0 server of mine has only 1 2GB SCSI disk with NTFS formatting.
> It's
> > runninhg low on free disk space already.
> >
> > Is there a way I can simply plug in a new 4GB hard disk and make it
part
> of
> > drive C: (thus giving me more space) without reformatting my drive C: ?
>
> NT's Disk Administrator will allow you to do this with any other
partition,
> but not C because it is the system partition. In order to do what you're
> wanting to do, you'd have to use Partition Magic, or something similar to
> it.
>
> All of our NT servers are using no more than maybe 600 megs on drive
C--all
> websites, logs, etc. are on different partitions. Maybe you can move some
> stuff from one drive to another instead of expanding C?
>
> Josh
>
>
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