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    If I want to do a rebuild and not loose data.

    I was going to do the following:

    Install new disk and install WHS (What is the best size to make the C: partition?)
    Then attach my old data drives to another PC and copy, from each drive, \de\shares\<sharename> to the new shares created on the WHS.

    Is this the correct waty to proceed? I know that I will have to recreate users and reinstall add-ins, but is there anything else I should do?

    Regards,
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:49 AM

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    The installation routine should automatically size the C: partition for you at 20 GB.  If you are simply replacing the system drive, you should be able to just do a server re-installation rather than a new install with your other drives in place and you should not lose any data and save yourself the trouble of moving/connecting the drives to other PC's and moving the data over the network.  Depending on the amount of data you have, there can be a fairly lengthy delay during the installation while the tombstones to the existing data are rebuilt.

    Mark
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:44 AM
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    If you've resized your system partition to 50 GB and have filled it up, I have to admit that Windows Home Server may not be a good fit for your needs. By design, it's a simple "set it and forget it" node on your network, not a desktop machine or a general (multi-) purpose server. If your needs include a lot of additional software I would really look at Windows Server 2008.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:59 PM
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    On almost any server 20 GB should currently be more then enough for SYS partition, even if you install a larger number of programs and Add-ins. Obviously you shouldn't use SYS partition for storage of large amounts data. Best to thing to do here would be to add another disk which is not part of the WHS storage pool.  You can then use this one for data storage or even installation of programs if you like.

    Possibly there's one or more programs filling up your SYS partitioon with log/temp or other data you don't really need. You can use a utility like Treesize or JdiskReport to find out which folders are taking up most space
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:28 PM
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    The installation routine should automatically size the C: partition for you at 20 GB.  If you are simply replacing the system drive, you should be able to just do a server re-installation rather than a new install with your other drives in place and you should not lose any data and save yourself the trouble of moving/connecting the drives to other PC's and moving the data over the network.  Depending on the amount of data you have, there can be a fairly lengthy delay during the installation while the tombstones to the existing data are rebuilt.

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    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:44 AM
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    Thanks for the answer but I already have a 50GB SYS partition and have only a 2GB free, I do have outlook and add-ins installed. I was thinking about making it 100GB.

    I have problems moving/copying large amounts of data also. I do have the latest updates installed. 

    I have too many reasons for not doing re-installation, which I am not prepared to discuss. I am really at my wits end with WHS. But lets just say WHS has again (Third time now with no warning/reason) lost a whole load of my data!

    So I thought if I give it one more chance with a clean slate, grab what data I can retrieve.

    If this doesn't keep running without problems I'm out of here and back to more reliable mapped drives running on xp.

    Regards,
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:58 PM
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    If you've resized your system partition to 50 GB and have filled it up, I have to admit that Windows Home Server may not be a good fit for your needs. By design, it's a simple "set it and forget it" node on your network, not a desktop machine or a general (multi-) purpose server. If your needs include a lot of additional software I would really look at Windows Server 2008.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
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    On almost any server 20 GB should currently be more then enough for SYS partition, even if you install a larger number of programs and Add-ins. Obviously you shouldn't use SYS partition for storage of large amounts data. Best to thing to do here would be to add another disk which is not part of the WHS storage pool.  You can then use this one for data storage or even installation of programs if you like.

    Possibly there's one or more programs filling up your SYS partitioon with log/temp or other data you don't really need. You can use a utility like Treesize or JdiskReport to find out which folders are taking up most space
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:28 PM
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    Thanks for the replies Ken & Brubber,

    Brubber; Thanks for the Log/Temp file pointer I had over 10GB of Log files!

    Anyway I have done a new install using the default 20GB SYS partition and added the drives back one by one then copied the DE\Shares before adding the drives to my storage pool.

    All is OK so far.

    Thanks.

    Tuesday, May 5, 2009 8:56 AM