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Need to manually rebuild a mirrored array on a server and am in the process of reinstalling SBS 2003 on it. However, it's a Dell server, and know that there's the Dell FAT32 diagnostics partition, a system partition, and a data partition, but do not know the size of each.

Planning on reinstalling SBS 2003, all applications on the server, and then doing a System State restore, but figured that not having the correct partitions will cause some grief: am I right? Almost thinking that the size of the partitions shouldn't matter, but not positive.

Question: should I care about the size of the partition? If so, how can I get this partition information from a non-booting drive? We have an Acronis image of the one working disk and the partitions are mounted/viewable in Explorer on a workstation, but I'm not sure where the Logical Disk Manager/Disk Management data is stored and/or if there's a way to retrieve it without having a working Windows installation.

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You can maybe ask the partition table in your Acronis image. I do that on Linux for virtual machines disks. Maybe it works for you too. Check on http://connaissances.fournier38.fr/display.php?id=328 (in French sorry) but the commands are easy to understand.

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I would try a gparted live cd.

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  • This won't work -- the array has been wiped/rebuilt with new disks -- all I have is the Acronis image (which I can mount/view the partitions and their data). What I don't know is if I can find a cached .dat file (or registry key perhaps) that would have the size of the partitions, like perhaps something that the Disk Management utility would store. Commented Apr 20, 2010 at 22:15

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