Sunday, November 19, 2006

When we began seeing errors on our SBS 2003 Server several days ago warning that space on the C drive was running low, we began to plan an intensive (and scary) operation to upgrade it.  The plan WAS going to look something like this:

  • shut down server
  • remove system drive and install it in a second machine
  • install bigger drive in second machine
  • install disk cloning software on second machine
  • copy old drive to new drive
  • put new drive (cloned) in server
  • be happy

There are many esoteric little things involved in these steps, especially when we're talking about SCSI and Dynamic NTFS disks. The whole process was a little daunting.

BUT, much of this worry goes away with Paragon Partition Manager Server Edition.  Hallelujah!  I installed a new 70 gig SCSI drive to replace a 16 gig drive (required a server restart). Then I ran Partition Manager to copy the system disk to the new disk (this needed another restart), and Ka-ching!... shut down the server one more time to remove the old drive and we were back in business.

Brilliant. Thank you Paragon!

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