I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that was assembled and configured by Dell. The Dell support has expired, and I need to make adjustments to the partitions on the RAID array. Here is what I have:
Dell T410 server with a RAID 5 array configured with the following partitions shown in Disk Management (in this order from left to right):
78MB Healthy partition (diagnostics partition I presume)
3GB Recovery partition - primary partition
40GB C: OS partition - primary partition
653GB D: partition - logical drive
Unfortunately, the 40GB OS partition is nearly full. We have plenty of unused space on the D: partition. I would like to shrink the D partition by approximately 100GB, and increase the size of the C: partition.
Is this something that I can do fairly easily?
Can I use the Windows Backup utility to backup the data on the D: partition to an external hard disk, then remove the D: partition, increase the size of the C: partition as needed and then recreate the D: partition and restore the data to the drive?
Or will I have to go about it some other way?
I need to minimize server downtime as much as possible.