Windows Server 2008 RAID
Greetings,
I have two questions;
1) How do I determine what RAID (1,2,3,4,5) is being used. I know that it's NTFS.
2) What can I do with a C: drive that is low on space? The C: and D: volume are on DISK 0.
Thanks,
Brian
I have two questions;
1) How do I determine what RAID (1,2,3,4,5) is being used. I know that it's NTFS.
2) What can I do with a C: drive that is low on space? The C: and D: volume are on DISK 0.
Thanks,
Brian
BillBondo
You would need to get into the BIOS unless its setup thru windows. There you need to look in Disk Manager
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I'm looking at Disk Manager and do not see that it is RAID 5, It's looking more like just being striped.
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Here is a snippet of what I'm seeing
DiskMgr.JPG
DiskMgr.JPG
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Regarding the shortage of space on the C drive, is it possible to reallocate some off from the D volume?
Looks like F is just an external drive. If I remember it should say mirrored. There is no raid 2, 3 or 4. Raid O, 1, 5 etc. Restart and look at the bios. You might not even have the option to create one. The C drive is just cut into partitions.
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Okay, thanks. With that being said, could I extend the C drive if I delete the D drive (after backup of course, and then recreate D or is there a simpler way, even 3rd party software.
1) based on your disk management screenshot, it's hardware raid else you would see multiple dynamic disks in a software raid. you shouldn't have to reboot if you install vendor tools (HP, Dell, etc.) that can manage the array
2) you'll have to use 3rd party tools to do this since shrinking a volume would make space available at the end of the volume (after D) but the free space needs to be contiguous which means a 3rd party tool needs to shrink from the front of volume D to allow C to be extended
How to shrink a partition?
http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm#3
2) you'll have to use 3rd party tools to do this since shrinking a volume would make space available at the end of the volume (after D) but the free space needs to be contiguous which means a 3rd party tool needs to shrink from the front of volume D to allow C to be extended
How to shrink a partition?
http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm#3
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Thank you experts for your advise and recommendations. I will schedule time to give this a try and report back on the results.
What would you recommend setting the C: drive space allocation to?
What would you recommend setting the C: drive space allocation to?
Set it to 100GB. Must be ok for long time then.
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Still waiting for chance to work on this.