Creating Paritioning Table

Overview

A STD Server requires 2 additional partitions which are mandatory

DBMS = Database Management System (MySQL / MSSQL)

The CD-ROM drive letter must be changed to allow the above drive letters (It will likely be using one of the drive letters above on a fresh install)

Proceed as follows:

•Click "Computer Management (Local) > Storage > Disk Management"

•Right-click on "CD-ROM0", and select "Change drive letter and paths..."

•Click "Change", then in the next box, in the drop-down select the drive letter "X" and press "OK"

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•Click "Yes" to the warning message to complete the CD Driver letter change

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•Right click on the unallocated space of your disk, and select "New Simple Volume..."

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•Click "Next"

•First we created the D:\(Data) drive\partition, enter in the size of the disk and Click "Next"

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In this example we are creating a D:\(Data) drive\partition with a minimum recommenced size of 256 GB (for local DBMS install)

(256GB x 1024MB = 262144MB)

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•Make sure the drive letter selection is "D" and then Click "Next"

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•Make sure the "File system = NTFS" and the "Volume label = Data" and Click "Next"

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•Finally Click "Finish" to create the D:\(Data) drive\partition

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•Once again, Right click on the unallocated space of your disk, and select "New Simple Volume..."

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•Click "Next"

•We now create the F:\(Logs) drive\partition, enter in the size (128 GB in this case) of the disk and Click "Next"

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•Make sure the drive letter selection is "F" and then Click "Next"

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•Make sure the "File system = NTFS" and the "Volume label = Logs" and Click "Next"

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•Finally Click "Finish" to create the F:\(Logs) drive\partition

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•Drive partitioning is complete and you should have something similar to this

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