Can I shrink a logical drive and not the extended partition to a bare metal restore to a smaller drive?

The current configuration is a Dell T310 with a S300 controller, with all locations 4 hot filled with SAS drives.  The operating system is SBS 2008 (2008 Server/Vista), I intend to change the controller of S300 (software) controller, a controller (hardware) H700.  My concern is that the H700 brings readers a little smaller in size.

The typical arrangement of Dell's diagnosis, followed by a recovery partition partition (E :), followed by the system partition (C :), followed by a partition with a logical volume (d).  If I use Diskpart to shrink the D: 'partition', he let me with free space, not allocated.  Thus, it effectively reduces the logical drive, and the extended partition stays the same size as it was, with no way to reduce it.

The question is, if I shrink the logical D: drive and not the extended partition and then get backups of the system, I'll be able to a bare metal restore on the smallest virtual disk of the H700?

That's what I did:
-Released the S300 controller and 4, 450 GB, 15 000 rpm Cheetah RAID-5
-Replace the controller H700 and 2, 2 TB 7200 RPM in RAID-1 Constellations

Results:
-Eliminates the possibility of falling on a disk space issue when restoring
-Increased the amount of available disk space.
M ' left with 2 free hard drive for future expansion bays.

Tags: Dell Servers

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