I guess that leads me to this question-if my resizing goes bad on the first drive, will I be able to insert the other drive that was mirrored and everyhting will be hunky dory until I come up with plan B, or will that not work? I have Powerquest Volume manager and I was planning to resize the partition instead of reinstall eveyrhting, because if the resize doesnt work-THEN I will reinstall. Yes, I wanted to break the mirror so if my resizing scheme went down in flames, I would still have the other drive. They may cause problems with the Dell utility partition, and Dell has not tested nore certified their use. There ARE 3rd party utilities such as partition magic that may be able to change the size of the C: partition. For backing out, remove the other drive and reinstall the previously removed drive, and force it online in the ctrl M controller BIOS utility. After testing the new install, you can reinstall the removed drive (with the system running) and it should recognize the drive and rebuild the array. You may then delete the D: partition and reinstall the O/S deleting the old 4 GB partition and create a new larger partition, complete the install then restore the registry and data from your backup. You should not need to break the mirror to fix your C: partition size problem, provided you have a backup of your data that is.Īssuming you want to remove a drive for a backout or fall back position, just physically remove the drive, and disable the alarm (ctrl M BIOS utility). The partitions should be sub divisions of the logical drive created by the H/W RAID.
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