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WHS: moving data partition possible?

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after a few days, i was finally able to get WHS installed properly on raid 1 with 2 40gb OWC SSDs. after the install, WHS creats a 20GB system drive and 17GB data drive. is it possible to use partition magic to copy the 17GB data partition to a 1tb drive then erase and increase the system drive? what im trying to achieve is keeping the system drive itself on the raided 40GB SSDs and data/storage pool on the 1tb drive.
 
unfortunately - no you can't. Although you would think that would make sense, WHS limits the system drive to only 20 gigs - and it is HIGHLY recommended you don't fiddle with it. You technically shouldnt need a full 20 gigs of system disk space as the machine should have as few programs installed on it as possible. In the next release of WHS (VAIL) their bumping it up quite a bit.
 
There are instructions buried somewhere on wegotserved to adjust the system drive size.

IIRC, between the first and second reboots during install, you boot to an operating system on a disc (of whatever flavor you prefer) and modify the partition size. Then reboot and allow the setup to continue. You receive one or two errors during install, but you can close them w/o consequence.

I don't know if you will be able to complete remove the data partition from these drives though - something is telling me no, but it has been a long time since I setup my production WHS.

Good luck!
 
I formatted D: after the install was all said and done (on VMWare ESXi)

Backup service stopped working because the data was located there and the shared folders disappeared. But it worked regardless.
 
My WHS has never put any storage data on the system drive.

I assume it saves the system drive 'till last?
 
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