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Boot Partition Too Small
I have a server whose boot partition is too small. I have alot of space left on the drive so that is not the problem. I cannot extend it within 2000 Server. I was thinking I could ghost it to a temporary drive. Reformat the production drive and then reghost to a larger partition. What do you think of this? Or do you have any better ideas.
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What is causing your boot partition to be too small? If you are running out of space for swap files, print spool files, log files, and the like, you can try forcing Windows to write those files to other disks.
This website has methods for telling Windows to put these files someplace else, perhaps on a bigger drive:
http://fox2k.net/2ktweaks/enhancing_performance_with_2_disks.htm
If you don't want to reformat or purchase a third-party migration tool, this might work to help keep your boot partition size under control.
This website has methods for telling Windows to put these files someplace else, perhaps on a bigger drive:
http://fox2k.net/2ktweaks/enhancing_performance_with_2_disks.htm
If you don't want to reformat or purchase a third-party migration tool, this might work to help keep your boot partition size under control.
Krellan2, excellent post....nice to see everything in one place.
aquamini, if you haven't tried any of the tricks suggested by Krellan2's ref, they are worth doing. However, in my situation, I did all the tricks and the partition was still steadily getting bigger. One of the big things was user profiles. I even started moving these to another drive. Eventually I came to realize that my partition was just plain too small and it simply needed to be bigger. So I repartionend, moved all the system stuff back, moved all the user profiles off. Now everything is smooth and predictable.
aquamini, if you haven't tried any of the tricks suggested by Krellan2's ref, they are worth doing. However, in my situation, I did all the tricks and the partition was still steadily getting bigger. One of the big things was user profiles. I even started moving these to another drive. Eventually I came to realize that my partition was just plain too small and it simply needed to be bigger. So I repartionend, moved all the system stuff back, moved all the user profiles off. Now everything is smooth and predictable.
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