Question about System and Boot volumes?
I have a Windows 2003 server which someone else loaded. It's at a remote site. I connected to the server and configued it with DCHP, and DNS. It's also a DC. It's been configured with a C and D partition. Everything's been working great. I went to configure DFS share on the D drive and it complained that it wasn't an NTFS drive. I went into device manager to reformat the drive and that's when I saw it. The D drive is a FAT32 partition but it's also the System volume, and the C drive is NTFS and is also the BOOT volume.
Is there any way to move the system volume over so I can reformat the D drive as NTFS? Or do I need to reload?
Is there any way to move the system volume over so I can reformat the D drive as NTFS? Or do I need to reload?
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Keep in mind, if you modify the boot.ini like that, you MAY not be able to boot the system without using the recovery console or a BartPE or similar boot disk.
Copy it to floppy first - you should be able to recover by inserting the floppy during boot - but yes, there is the potential to break things if you're not careful.
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Yep that's an ID10T move. I was totally trying to make it harder than it was. Not seeing any options iin Disk Manager threw me. I totally forgot about the command line utility. Thanks leew.
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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).
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If so, copy them to the C drive (not the pagefile) and move the pagefile using properties of My Computer by adding a pagefile to C then zeroing the one on D. Reboot to take effect.
Go into Boot.ini and change the partition from 1 to 0.
Try to reboot it again and see what happens.