Enlarge system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server

[Guest Just Guessing]

Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server?

I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a

server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,

short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

[Guest Brett I. Holcomb]

Re: Enlarge system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server

 

Well, if you have extra space then you might check out diskpart and

see if that will work.

 

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:18:02 -0800, Just Guessing

<JustGuessing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server?

>I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a

>server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,

>short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

[Guest WorkingHard]

Re: Enlarge system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server

 

no diskpart magic on the system partition.

 

take a verfied good backup of teh server, even an extra image of the disk

for safety and than use the free tool gparted live cd (google it and read

the manual) to extend the c partition

 

cheers

"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> wrote in message

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> Well, if you have extra space then you might check out diskpart and

> see if that will work.

>

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:18:02 -0800, Just Guessing

> <JustGuessing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

>>Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c:) on Windows 2003

>>Server?

>>I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a

>>server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing

>>it,

>>short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

[Guest Daveg]

Re: Enlarge system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server

 

If you can leverage drive expansion from the hardware array to add

capacity to c:, so that you will so the new free space as unallocated

on the same disk that C: partition resides, diskpart may work. You

cannot use diskpart when the OS, page file etc are in use however, you

might try booting to WinPE 2.0 and then using diskpart to expand c: as

it is no longer in use and should expand.

 

daveg

[Guest Nick Payne]

RE: Enlarge system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server

 

I have used the server edition of Paragon Partition Manager to expand system

partition on Win2003 servers without any problem.

http://www.partition-manager.com/

 

"Just Guessing" wrote:

> Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server?

> I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a

> server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,

> short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!