Passage from 1 disc to disc 4 raid 5 T - 300 SBS 2008

You need to change 1 disk RAID to 4-drive raid 5 without the backup and restore. What process and procedure would you use? Background, I did volunteer help an organization to reconfigure their SBS 2008 Server. Last year they received a T - 300 Dell running SBS 2008 with 10 licenses (for free). The Organization has nine people. Now for the downside. The machine has 1-250 GB hard drive and 4 GB of RAM. The hard disk is divided into a 75 GB c drive and the rest is a D drive for data. The c-drive is completely full (only 100 MB of free space) and the d drive - has only 5 GB of space. They run AD print, file, and SQL. No Exchange or SharePoint. Initially, they had backup in the cloud, but because the software is running on the c drive they removed. They now use the Windows backup on a USB key. They have hundreds to spend to improve. I'll probably update the RAM of 4 GB to 8 GB and buy 3-250 GB disks to create a raid 5 machine and expand space. The machine T-300 Dell comes with a hardware raid perc raid controller is possible. I also found the same Seagate drives as what is in the machine now. I normally, how to back up the hard drive, format, and create the raid scenario 5 from scratch, then reinstall, but due to certain circumstances beyond my control, I have very little time. My plan b is to create a 3 disk raid 5 for the d drive software and use a partition manager to resize the c-dive. Is there a healthy way of mind until his presentation the raid 5 from the single disc?

You said you had a "PERC"... "PERC" in a T300 (PERC 6 / i) does not support non RAID, so if you use a PERC 6, your single drive must be a single drive RAID 0, which means that you CAN add disks to the system and reconfigure your disk 1 0 4 drive RAID 5 RAID on the fly.  You will need the software OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) installed to do this.  OMSA MUST be installed on the C: drive, which may complicate your scenario.  If you have not already OMSA is installed, you can use OMSA Live to initiate the reconfigure statement.  You can also move the d: pagefile in order to free up enough space to install OMSA (IF you have not already moved it for reasons of space).

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