Repartition SBS 2003 during IDR

[Michael_Hensley]

Hi,

I need to repartion the RAID 5 array on my Small Business Server 2003 server to get more space on my system partition.

I was wondering if there is any way to repartition your hard drives during an IDR restore on a Windows Small Business Server 2003? It appears that repartitioning isn't an option for Windows Server 2003 during restore.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the easiest/fastest way to accomplish this?

[Joshua_Small]

Hi,

I know there is definitely no problem doing a "Manual disaster Recovery" (forget about IDR, install Windows, make your own partitions, hit restore, etc..)

I suspect this is the long way around however. Try looking into products such as PartitionMagic.

[Michael_Hensley]

Thanks Josh,

Yes, my concern here is really saving time, so I was hoping to be able to cut a few steps by using the IDR feature. I guess it was possible to do this with Windows 2000 Server, but not Win2k3.

[Renuka_-]

Hi Michael,
During the Windows Setup boot process, when you press and insert the diskette containing the ASR files; IDR uses Windows ASR to restore the critical partitions that were previously on the computer. If the ASR files are included in the bootable image, you are not prompted to provide them. The partitions are created as they were defined in the ASR configuration file.
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[Michael_Hensley]

Actually, I tried that, but there is still no option to change the partition size during the process. I am just going to go long way around (forget about IDR, install Windows, make your own partitions, hit restore, etc..) and restore from a USB drive to speed up the process.

I really don't think it can be done from IDR.

Thanks for your help.