asked on Dell server with 2 disk RAID has no room on one partition
I have a Dell server running Windows server 2003 and there are two partitions (factory set), but one is running out of space. It's a RAID with 2 disk and 2 partitions, so I'm wondering if there is any way to repartition into single partition instead? I don't need 2 seperate partitions, and there is over 50 gigs on the the E partition, so I would like to know if I can just combine them into one single partition or the simplest way to reallocate the disk space. Thanks for any help.
Windows Server 2003
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Thanks Talkinsmak. Do you know if Partition Magic works with RAID? I have used Acronis and Partition Magic in the past, but I want to know if I can combine the two partitions into one single partition and just keep the RAID set up to mirror the single partition. The free space is all assigned to a partition, but one of the partitions has lots of room and the other has none. I would like to just combine them, but I have never done this, and am not sure how/if it's even possible. I'll check out Partition Magic, but I didn't think it could do RAID when I used it in the past.
You might have to break the mirror then recreate it.
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Thanks for all the help with this. I am going to backup all data and probably just upgrade to new drives which are compatible with the server. I think it's too much hassle to try and resize the partitions and I don't want to risk losing data and having to restore from backups. I'll split the points evenly since all of your suggestions were helpful.