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Do you have room for more physical drives? &nbsp;Do you have a true RAID controller or software raid? &nbsp;The &quot;best&quot; solution depends on knowing a lot more about your environment.<br />
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Assuming that you have room for two more drives, and assuming that you have a RAID controller, I would add two more physical drives to the box as another RAID1 pair big enough for your data volume. &nbsp;Once you create the volume, migrate the data from the D: drive to it and move all of the shares over to it as well. &nbsp;Once this part is done, you can destroy the old D: drive (and, optionally, reassign E: to D:). &nbsp;<br />
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Having moved the regular data out of your way, you can delete the partition on the D: drive. &nbsp;Then, you can extend your current C: drive to take up the remaining space that was taken up by the old D: drive.<br />
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By the way, you WILL want to clean up anything that you can (before starting all of this) to reduce the size of the data set. &nbsp;Delete any temp data, run the Disk Cleanup tool, and make sure that anything else you don't need is purged out. &nbsp;You will ALSO want to get a full backup (preferably an image backup), too.
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Thank You for the comments. We have hardware mirror drives, 545 GB each, these are SCSI. Logical drive C: was set at 40GB, the balance is D: drive holding company data. This worked for 3 years and I am thinking about expanding C: to 100 GB. This I believe should be more than enough. <br />
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Our accounting system is best run on SCSI D: drive and I can keep the accounting data on D:. The archive data can be located on the spare drive, speed is not the primary issue. <br />
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Bill, I appreciate your comments but at this time do not think we need to add additional drives. <br />
Eric, since C: cannot be expanded, I believe D: should be reduced by 60GB and then I can expand C: from 40 to 100 GB? Then follow your instructions.
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Correct. You need to have free space on the drive before you can expand C.<br />
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If you are able to shrink volume D (try the Disk Management' in Storage Manager), then reboot, then you can expand C.
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We copied all the data off of D: to another drive and then formatted D: to free space. When we try to expand C:, this option is greyed out. There is free space after C: to expand, it appears that the C: patrician cannot be expanded using Storage Management. <br />
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We are now looking to use Partition Master or similar 3rd party software to expand the partition. What can you suggest?<br />
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We did reboot after formatting D: to free space, refer to this comment. Would this have made a difference?<br />
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&quot;If you are able to shrink volume D (try the Disk Management' in Storage Manager), then reboot, then you can expand C.&quot;
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Correction - we did NOT reboot after formatting D:
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Our Dell server with mirror drives, has a 2 physical drives with two logical patricians (C: &amp;&nbsp;D:). We are at 96% full and need to expand volume C: drive. I can move the volume D: data to a backup drive Would like to know the best method expanding volume C:?<br />
What I have read, it is best to shrink volume D: and then expand volume C:
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Our Dell server with mirror drives, has a 2 physical drives with two logical patricians (C: & D:). We are at 96% full and need to expand volume C: drive. I can move the volume D: data to a backup drive Would like to know the best method expanding volume C:?
What I have read, it is best to shrink volume D: and then expand volume C:

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