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partition alignment on fresh windows 2003 ent server
I have this server which has it’s physical disks in RAID 5 controlled by a 3com raid controller. size of the stripe unit is unknown for the moment (Can check tomorrow in the office). I need to install...
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PartedMagic in vSphere 4 – Weird Mouse Behaviour
Mouse is pointing to a fraction of where it should in a VMware vSphere 4.0 vm with the windows vSphere client. Booting up UBCD -> PartedMagic… The mouse pointer has x/y co-ordinates of a smaller...
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Resize ntfs system partitions with GParted?
Trying to resize 2 ntfs system and boot partitions (windows 2003 server) using GParted. Goal: Resize D: (/dev/sda1) to ~850G – this is the boot drive with D:ntldr, boot.ini, etc. Resize C: (/dev/sda5)...
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creating a more than 4 primary partitions
i was moving my partitions here and there and i end up deleting my swap partition and currently i have 4 partitions and when i try to format ( note : the unallocated part ) some unallocated space...
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What is the best way to repartition the system drive on a Windows domain...
I have a Windows 2003 server that is the primary domain controller for the network. It has a RAID 1 array that houses the ‘C’ and ‘D’ drives. And a RAID 5 array that houses the ‘E’ drive. The C: drive...
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Missing hal.dll After Disk Clone
A friend couldn’t seem to get Norton Ghost to clone a disk usably. I suggested using GParted, and (after running chkdsk /f on the NTFS partition – possibly the cause of Norton’s problem) took the...
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What is the best/easiest way to change the RAID configuration of a Windows...
I have a Dell Server with 6 1TB Drives in it. Currently the drives are configured into two RAID groups: Existing Group 1: 2 x 1TB in RAID 1 (1TB Usable) C: Drive (Windows 2008 r2 Boot Partition NTFS)...
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If I resize a Linux partition using GParted will my data be safe?
I would like to shrink the size of a partition containing an Ubuntu distribution and files. Is it safe to assume that I will not lose or corrupt any of the files as long as I don’t make the partition...
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Resize Ubuntu boot partition with swap partition adjacent to it
I’m trying to resize a /boot partition use gparted from an Ubuntu LiveCD. The problem is that I have a linux swap and extended partition right adjacent to the /boot partition. The unallocated space is...
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How can I resize sda1 using Unallocted space
Image of file system http://imgur.com/eFGfT I am trying to increase the size of the partition sda1. But when I try to resize, I don’t see any available space though I have 7GB of space. How can I...
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