Disk Management on NT 4 Server

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Shankar - 11 Oct 2004 15:03 GMT

Hi,

I have server having 30 GB HDD and it is created with one partition with 7
GB and balance space kept free and not created any partition.

Now, the free space on the server partition left 1 GB only. (7 GB
Partition). Is there any way we can add the free space to the existing
partition without losing any data.

The server is graphics server and clients connect and retrieve the charts.
we dont want to lose the data.

Kindly give us some solution without losing the data we need to add more
space.

Thanks
Shankar

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Jetro - 11 Oct 2004 18:48 GMT

If you cannot rearrange the data, it's possible to overcome 7.8 GB
system/boot partition limit by replacing NT4 bootstrap code and loader files
with W2k-and-up versions.

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Shankar - 12 Oct 2004 06:23 GMT

Thanks for your reply. We cannot replace the bootstrap to w2k. problem is the
software running on the machine is build only for NT4 Server. So we cannot
upgrade to windows 2000. Is there any other way i can add more space on my
existing partition with any tools or methods.

Please advise.

> If you cannot rearrange the data, it's possible to overcome 7.8 GB
> system/boot partition limit by replacing NT4 bootstrap code and loader files
> with W2k-and-up versions.

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Jetro - 12 Oct 2004 13:16 GMT

This is not an upgrade. You can think of it as of dual-boot system without
an actual second one and I doubt the software is so smart and checks a
bootstrap.

User-level applications have two options for determining the operating
system configuration. The first is just to read the ProductType Registry
value directly. The second is to call a native NT function,
RtlGetNtProductType(), that is in the ntdll.dll. When called for the first
time after a system boot, RtlGetNtProductType() reads the Product Type
Registry value and caches the result in an internal variable that it returns
to the caller. The internal variable is 1 if the Winnt string was read, 2 if
Lanmannt was read, and 3 if Servernt was obtained. Subsequent calls avoid
reading the Registry by returning the cached variable.

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Jiri Tuma - 13 Oct 2004 11:28 GMT

Cannot you create another partition over rest of space and move your data
folders to it?

> Hi,
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> Thanks
> Shankar

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