Moving installed boxes to another disk

[jmartin]

Hi.
I have the following: my server has two hard disks, both are 4 Gb of size, with NT 4.0 and Exchange and both are near limit of capacity. Exchange program is allocated in C and mailboxes in D, how could I remove D and tell Exchange that mailboxes will be in the hard drive?? Of course before this I must copy or backup mailboxes. What is the right procedure?? or is there a way to tell exchange that stores all email in new E ?? All aids are welcome. Thanks!!

 

[brontosaurus]

I guess you're about to install a new drive? If so, after you do that, run the performance optimizer to have exchange move the databases for you.

 

[fuego007]

jmartin,

If you are going to replace your D drive with a new drive, you MUST back the drive up and then restore from the backup. The easier method, though, would be to add the new drive to your system then run the Exchange Optimizer (Start|Program Files|Microsoft Exchange|Exchange Optimizer).Let the optimizer make its determinations, then change the destination for anything it wanys to place on drive D: to drive E: (if you're going to remove drive D: - if not, leave the recommendations alone!).

I can tell you are inexperienced with Exchange, and you did a very smart thing by posting here on Tek-Tips. You saved yourself from a potential disaster!

Good luck,
Bob

 

[jmartin]

Thanks for your adds.Now I have a doubt: assuming new drive is E, when Exchange relocated mailboxes to E, there will be a problem if extract physically the D drive and restart server?? remember in this case E drive will be D and what will happend with Exchange?? or I must to leave the drive in the cage...Thanks!!

 

[brontosaurus]

you can statically map the drive as E: via disk management even after you remove the old drive.