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DMI - 18 Nov 2004 15:35 GMT

Our company has a server with Windows NT 4.0. We are in the process of
upgrading the server to Windows 2003. Before we do this project I would like
to replace the four hard drives in it. The current configuration of the hard
drives is as follows:

Disk 0 (17359MB) | EISA Utilities 39MB
| C: 2000MB
| H: 5318MB
| E: 10001MB
Disk 1 (34726MB) | C: 2008MB
| H: 5318MB
| E: 10001MB
| Free Space 17399MB
Disk 2 (34726MB) | EISA Utilities 8MB
| D: 34724MB
Disk 3 (34726MB) | EISA Utilities 8MB
| Free Space 34719

The questions I have are the following:

What is the EISA Utilities?
How does it get install in the Hard drives?
Why does the Disk1 does not have this utility?
What does this utility do?
How come that the Disk 2 and Disk 3 has the same hard rive size but the Free
Space partition of Disk 3 is 5 MB smaller then Disk 2?
Can I delete the EISA Utilities from the partition?

Please - If you know the answer to any or all of these questions please
advise.

Thank you in advance for your help!

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Dave Patrick - 18 Nov 2004 17:20 GMT

This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/165181/EN-US/

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| Our company has a server with Windows NT 4.0. We are in the process of
| upgrading the server to Windows 2003. Before we do this project I would like
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| Thank you in advance for your help!

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xe77 - 20 Nov 2004 02:55 GMT

EISA Utilities is supplied by the server vendor to provide OS recovery,
hardware diagnostics, etc. Some COMPAQ servers and Workstations use this as
the BIOS setup utility.

This utility is installed on the drive containing the Active Partition to
make sure the EISA utilities are available even if the OS is not installed.

The EISA utilities are only specific to the server hardware that they were
installed on. They can be removed if the hardware is being completely
changed.

The second hard disk show less space probably due to either:
- Improperly allocated MFT free sapce bitmap. (correctable with CHKDSK)
- Different cylinder/sector boundaires between drives of the same size but
different model.
- Of the amounts indicated, one is the actualy partition size and the second
is the formatted size (after NTFS uses up some space for the MFT, USN
Jorunal, etc)

> Our company has a server with Windows NT 4.0. We are in the process of
> upgrading the server to Windows 2003. Before we do this project I would like
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>
> Thank you in advance for your help!

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