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Expanding Boot partition using slipstream w2k3 SP1 CDOur DC was initially upgraded from NT to w2k3. Due to the limits on NT boot
drives, the partition was only set up for 4GB. From all i can tell, the only MS supported way to increase the size of a boot partition is using unattended install http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325857 what i am curious about is wether this can also be used to upgrade an existing w2k3 DC with a slipstream SP1 install without completely messing up everything. Yes, there is adjacent free space on the physical drive next to the boot partition. And yes, i did look @ Symantec server/partition magic's latest incarnation...no w2k3 support. Any confirmation or horror stories? I don't think it is possible without loosing the data. If you can't do a
clean install (recommended), I would leave it as it is for the time of upgrade. Later, you can create volume mount point and mount remaining disk space as a folder on your drive C: This way you will have access to all available disk space under one logical drive letter. However, if your disk space is concern, I would suggest to do a clean instal where possible. -- Show quoteHide quoteArek Iskra MVP for Windows Server - Software Distribution "Steve" <St***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:172718A6-4A6F-4400-AAB4-684A143D5292@microsoft.com... > Our DC was initially upgraded from NT to w2k3. Due to the limits on NT > boot > drives, the partition was only set up for 4GB. From all i can tell, the > only > MS supported way to increase the size of a boot partition is using > unattended > install > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325857 > > what i am curious about is wether this can also be used to upgrade an > existing w2k3 DC with a slipstream SP1 install without completely messing > up > everything. > > Yes, there is adjacent free space on the physical drive next to the boot > partition. > > And yes, i did look @ Symantec server/partition magic's latest > incarnation...no w2k3 support. > > Any confirmation or horror stories? Thanks for the fast response
Show quoteHide quote "Arek Iskra [MVP]" wrote: > I don't think it is possible without loosing the data. If you can't do a > clean install (recommended), I would leave it as it is for the time of > upgrade. Later, you can create volume mount point and mount remaining disk > space as a folder on your drive C: This way you will have access to all > available disk space under one logical drive letter. > > However, if your disk space is concern, I would suggest to do a clean instal > where possible. > > -- > Arek Iskra > MVP for Windows Server - Software Distribution > > > "Steve" <St***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:172718A6-4A6F-4400-AAB4-684A143D5292@microsoft.com... > > Our DC was initially upgraded from NT to w2k3. Due to the limits on NT > > boot > > drives, the partition was only set up for 4GB. From all i can tell, the > > only > > MS supported way to increase the size of a boot partition is using > > unattended > > install > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325857 > > > > what i am curious about is wether this can also be used to upgrade an > > existing w2k3 DC with a slipstream SP1 install without completely messing > > up > > everything. > > > > Yes, there is adjacent free space on the physical drive next to the boot > > partition. > > > > And yes, i did look @ Symantec server/partition magic's latest > > incarnation...no w2k3 support. > > > > Any confirmation or horror stories? > > > Hi Steve,
> Any confirmation or horror stories? I will never ever install anything on a harddrive with <8GB. I hadWin2k Server (DC and Terminal Server) with 4GB and finally had to increase the boot partition and it was a real pain. Old versions of PartitionMagic (up to v5) can help you if you want to use PM on a server, later versions recognise the operating system - you'd buy the expensive server version. The problem is not the partition you want to increase. I lost all data on the partition that I made smaller, no problem with a normal backup copy. So, I made a DriveImage ("old" version 2002) of C: as a backup, made D: smaller (which destroyed all data ;), increased C: w/o problems, played back the tape backup of D:. As I am using Image files I have absolutely no problem formatting the whole disk, delete all old partitions and create new ones (even with fdisk from a W98-Bootdisk), play back the image to C:, the rest can be done with Win2k disk management. You only get in trouble with images if you have an image of a HDD that is bigger than the drive you want to use for the restore. (Eg. you have a HDD with 10GB size and 3GB of data, you'll have problems to restore the image to a HDD with 8 GB.) Good luck arno symantic ghost will work, we've done it here but cost$ some dollars
we already have it since we use it go setup clients. mike Show quoteHide quote "Steve" <St***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:172718A6-4A6F-4400-AAB4-684A143D5292@microsoft.com... > Our DC was initially upgraded from NT to w2k3. Due to the limits on NT > boot > drives, the partition was only set up for 4GB. From all i can tell, the > only > MS supported way to increase the size of a boot partition is using > unattended > install > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325857 > > what i am curious about is wether this can also be used to upgrade an > existing w2k3 DC with a slipstream SP1 install without completely messing > up > everything. > > Yes, there is adjacent free space on the physical drive next to the boot > partition. > > And yes, i did look @ Symantec server/partition magic's latest > incarnation...no w2k3 support. > > Any confirmation or horror stories? I've got ghost, but the system and boot partitions are on a hardware raid.
Once again, the solution is non-supported. Technically possible, but still non-supported. From the sound of things, i think i'm just going to have to suck it up, port services, files, and permissions to another box, and rebuild. Joy! Show quoteHide quote "mike menard" wrote: > symantic ghost will work, we've done it here but cost$ some dollars > we already have it since we use it go setup clients. > > mike > > "Steve" <St***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:172718A6-4A6F-4400-AAB4-684A143D5292@microsoft.com... > > Our DC was initially upgraded from NT to w2k3. Due to the limits on NT > > boot > > drives, the partition was only set up for 4GB. From all i can tell, the > > only > > MS supported way to increase the size of a boot partition is using > > unattended > > install > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325857 > > > > what i am curious about is wether this can also be used to upgrade an > > existing w2k3 DC with a slipstream SP1 install without completely messing > > up > > everything. > > > > Yes, there is adjacent free space on the physical drive next to the boot > > partition. > > > > And yes, i did look @ Symantec server/partition magic's latest > > incarnation...no w2k3 support. > > > > Any confirmation or horror stories? > > >  
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