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Default Changing Drive Letters - 06-13-2005 , 05:28 AM






I am new to SQL server so any guidance is much appreciated.

We have two logical drives for our SQL server.We are upgrading from a
smaller driver to a bigger one. We have copied everything from one drive to
the other after doing so we decided the easiest thing to do would be to
change the drive letter to what the old drive used to be. We went into disk
management and tried to do it from there but had no luck with getting the
cluster or the services restarted and back up. This seems like such an easy
thing to do but I can not seem to get it right! Again, if anyone has any
advice it would be greatly appreciated.

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Geoff N. Hiten
 
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Default Re: Changing Drive Letters - 06-13-2005 , 08:09 AM






Changing a drive letter "under the covers" works, but you have to do a few
tweaks to make it work on a cluster. Make sure you have created the new
disk as a cluster resource. Put it in the SQL server group and make the SQL
service dependant on the new disk. If that doesn't fix it, check the
application and system logs to see what SQL and/or the cluster service is
complaining about.

Geoff N. Hiten


"Mel" <Mel (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Quote:
I am new to SQL server so any guidance is much appreciated.

We have two logical drives for our SQL server.We are upgrading from a
smaller driver to a bigger one. We have copied everything from one drive
to
the other after doing so we decided the easiest thing to do would be to
change the drive letter to what the old drive used to be. We went into
disk
management and tried to do it from there but had no luck with getting the
cluster or the services restarted and back up. This seems like such an
easy
thing to do but I can not seem to get it right! Again, if anyone has any
advice it would be greatly appreciated.



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Charles Tolento
 
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Default RE: Changing Drive Letters - 06-13-2005 , 09:41 AM



Mel

Check out the ClusterRecovery.exe from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

If your new to clustering and want to swap disks, this might be a little
more user friendly for you. This will take care of the dependancy issue as
well.

Good Luck

Regards

CT

"Mel" wrote:

Quote:
I am new to SQL server so any guidance is much appreciated.

We have two logical drives for our SQL server.We are upgrading from a
smaller driver to a bigger one. We have copied everything from one drive to
the other after doing so we decided the easiest thing to do would be to
change the drive letter to what the old drive used to be. We went into disk
management and tried to do it from there but had no luck with getting the
cluster or the services restarted and back up. This seems like such an easy
thing to do but I can not seem to get it right! Again, if anyone has any
advice it would be greatly appreciated.

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