There are many server partition software in the market, you'd better back up the server and run a safe disk partition software.ĭifferent with read-only program, disk partition software will modify all parameters of associated disk, partition and files. NIUBI Partition Editorīetter than Windows native tools, third party partitioning software can shrink partition and make Unallocated space on the left, so C: drive can be extended easily. If you don't want to delete any partition or if the contiguous volume is Logical, you have to run third party disk partition software. But note that it still doesn't work if the contiguous partition D (or E) is a Logical drive. If you really want to extend C drive in Server 2008 R2 without any software, the only option is deleting D (or E) to get contiguous Unallocated space behind C drive. That means, it cannot extend C drive by shrinking any other volume. Although it runs in different way, it has same shortages with Disk Management. Diskpart Commandsĭiskpart is another Windows built-in utility, different with Graphical Disk Management, diskpart runs via command prompt. The problem is, after shrinking D: drive or any partition, Unallocated space is nonadjacent to C drive, therefore, Extend Volume is grayed out. To extend a partition with Disk Management, there must be contiguous Unallocated space behind this partition. But it's not true, it damaged my server several times when shrinking partition, especially when there are both Primary and Logical partitions on the same disk.Īlthough Server 2008 Disk Management has ' Shrink Volume' and 'Extend Volume' functions to change partition size, it cannot extend C drive in Windows 2008 server by shrinking any other volume. Disk ManagementĪfter searching by Google or in technical forums, some people suggest resizing Windows 2008 partition with Disk Management, because they think that native tool has the best compability. Tools to extend C drive in Server 2008 (R2) 1.
New computer technology make things much easier, nowadays, you can extend C drive by taking free space from other partition without losing data. Originally, when there is no free space left in system C drive, if you want to solve this problem without reinstalling OS and programs, you have to back up everything, delete partitions and recreate larger C drive and then restore.
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This article introduces which tool is better to resize server partition and how to extend C drive in Windows Server 2008 and R2 easily and safely. When system C: drive is running out of space, many people have trouble extending C: drive for Windows 2008 Server.
Although Windows Server 2008 has been released for such a long time, many companies still use this operating system to manage servers.
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