Resize the OS Partition on Windows Server 2003?

[John Kotuby]

Hi all..
I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Standard SP1. Originally I had
set up the OS on a 60 GB IDE drive with no mirroring. I then added an 80 GB
drive and applied native Windows Raid1 software mirroring, which resulted in
the new drive being partitioned at 60 GB. The original drive died and I
replaced it with an 80GB drive to match the spare.

I have already mirrored to the new drive. But now I want to take advantage
of the 80GB available on both drives.

I tried removing the mirror and then using Disk Manager in Windows to resize
the drive. I got a message that the Logical Drive was created with a
different OS (not possible), and therefore could not be up-sized.

I plan on puchasing a harware RAID add-in card from Adaptec and switching
over to that because the sofware raid is slow and sometimes causes problems.

Is there an easy way to upsize my OS partition W/O jumping thru hoops? I
purchased a copy of Norton Ghost only to fins out it doesn't work with a
server OS.

We have a slim operating budget and I want to find a way to do this in my
"spare time" :-) LOL

Can somebody point me to an article that doesn't require a certification in
2003 OS to understand?

Thanks to all...

[leew [MVP]]

Resizing the OS partition in a nightmare in my experience. But with a
60 GB OS partition, why do want to? Even if this is a terminal server,
60 GB should be WAY MORE than enough space for 99.9% of servers out
there. The C: drive should be for the OS only. Data should be stored
on other partitions/drives. I usually don't make the C: drive larger
than 12-16 GB (20 max). I'll mirror/use the other space and put other
things on it - depending on the server.

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[Jiongs Kim]

> We have a slim operating budget and I want to find a way to do this in my
> "spare time" :-) LOL
>
> Can somebody point me to an article that doesn't require a certification in
> 2003 OS to understand?
>

I think this tutorial could help: http://www.partition-magic.org/windows-server-2003/resize-partition-windows-server-2003.html