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Can I repartition a large hard drive that has Windows 2003 SBS installed on it. Can I create another partition and install another OS on it

I have an install of Windows 2003 SBS on a server with a lot of space on it. Realizing I want to put a more advanced version of the OS. I have 2003 & 2008 Server Standard. I was thinking about at least putting one of those two on that machine.

Can I do something like this? Does anyone know what the steps for that are please advise. Thank you.
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I have 4 hard drives on this machine 320Gig each. The first 3 were set up on RAID. (I only know that because I was told that.) I am not sure what RAID is other than it ties the 3 hard drives together as one.
The fourth hard drive is another 320 gig that is currently unused for anything. In fact I am setting it up now as an external. I just never used it.

So does that mean I can install Win2003Server Standard on that hard drive if so how does windows know which one to boot up with. The machine is a Dell PowerEdge 830. If that helps.

Do I still need to use the partition magic. I assume it is a commercial product I will need to purchase?
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Installed it. Thanks.