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| [Need] What/how to resize dynamic disk with?
Okay, I've got a Windows 2003 Server (Standard Edition) running on a dynamic disk (Microsoft's built-in software RAID-1) using two SATA drives of the same capacity as a file server/mirror. I intitially tried to move my boot partition to a PATA drive I had lying around and just making the shared space a software-RAID, but my server (Dell 400SC only supports booting from SATA first, not PATA then SATA).
Anyhow, on my SATA drives I oversized my Win 2K3 partition (C:, software RAID-1) at 40GB, whereas the whole installation uses up about 5GB. I would like to reduce the partition size and increase my "shared" remaining space that I have setup as a share (D: to the server, software RAID-1).
Would I be best in breaking the software RAID under the Local Disk Management, resizing the standard partitions with Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director, then re-creating the software RAID, or are there any utilities that can handle a Windows "Dynamic Disk" partition-resize without doing all those steps manually?
Of course all data will be backed up two two other machines as well as DVD backups during the process in case something goes foul.
Any ideas would be appreciated, or move this post to the Microsoft forum if more appropriate.
Thanks!
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