TI server version questions.......

I'm trying out the TI V8 server product and have a couple questions...
1) I have an external SATA drive attached, which is seen as a dynamic drive (can't change that)..when I run TI to do the image, it tells me that it is a dynamic drive and so I won't be able to restore from it using the boot media...

If I can't boot and restore from it, it's not of much use... any way around this?

Does the same problem exist if I am using an external USB drive?

What I want to accomplish is this:

On my server (win2003), the system partition is much too small.
What I want to do is to make an image of the system partition onto an external drive (same with the data partition)
then format and create new, resized partitions.
Then restore the saved images onto the new partitions.....
Will this work?

or (sorta out of the realm of TI, but..) if I were to just backup the data partition, then use partition magic to resize the partitions and then restore the data.. would that work? (the data partition has plenty of room)

[noonie]

I don't use ti8 server but I would do this.
Using boot cd, image complete drive to another networked drive.
You must do compleye drive so active partition will boot upon reimaging.
Resize/partition original drive with software of your choice.
Boot with ti8 bootcd and image original drive from networked image following onscreen instruction for partition sizes.
or
Acronis made a prog called Partition Expert that could resize for you on the fly.
I have used both methods successfully.