How to extend the windows 2003 C drive
How to extend the windows 2003 C drive ..? one of my DC is running out of space.
Please advice
Krishna
March 5th, 2011 12:10am
You can use third party tools like partition magic or acronisWith kind regards
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March 5th, 2011 12:22am
dispart will not work..? if i use any third party tools .. will there be any issues..? as this a DC.. don't want to take any chanceKrishna
March 5th, 2011 1:04am
diskpart in Windows 2003 cannot extent system and boot partitions
3rd party utilities should work quite well even if it is a DC.
I assume that you have proper backup and recovery procedures in place, as everyone who has AD should haveWith kind regards
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March 5th, 2011 6:21am
Hi Krishan,
AFAIK, we can only extend the boot partition in contiguous unallocated disk space, if you don't wish to delete the next drive to spare the unallocated disk space in the case, I think we may need to use third party software to extend or resize the system
drive C:
How to extend system partition in Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Server 2003 and Server 2008?
http://www.extend-partition.com/extend-system-boot-partition.html
Hope it helps.
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March 5th, 2011 9:41am
There is no way to extend the system volume with the operating system booted.
You can however expand the system volume on a server that is booted from an NTFS boot disk using the Diskpart resource kit utility if there is contiguous space available of the disk
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590
Try this
DISKPART > Select Disk 0 ("This assumes that DISK 0 is your boot disk")
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART > Detail Disk
Controller Type SCSI Disk Device
Disk ID: 2FE43460
Type : SCSI
Bus : 3
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 68 GB Healthy System
DISKPART > Select Volume 1
Volume 1 is the selected volume.
DISKPART > Extend Size=10000 ("10000 will expand the disk by 10GB as an example, if no size is specified all available space will be allocated to the partition") Disk Part successfully extended the volume.
DISKPART > Exithttp://www.virmansec.com/blogs/skhairuddin
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March 5th, 2011 11:47am
You may try diskpart command line, the advantage is that it provides by microsoft and is free, meanwhile, it has disadvantages, for more about diskpart, see how to
extend partition on server 2003 with diskpart
You may also try other third party
Server partition software, for example, acronis disk director, partition master, partition wizard, partition assistant, etc. No matter which tool you choose, you'd better backup the system and files before any operations to the server.
See this detailed guide
how to extend c drive on server 2003, if the system partition is ntfs, you can extend it without rebooting the server to save time.
March 5th, 2011 3:56pm
Hi Nagakrishna,
First,
there is no built-in disk management in Windows Server 2003 to extend the system c drive partition. Only the extension of data volumes is supported.
With regard to Diskpart Command Line, it will give you the following error message: "diskpart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending" Why can't you extend the volume? you can refer to why
diskpart failed to extend the volume .
To extend c drive partition or system partition in Windows Server 2003, you may need to use the third party tool-
Partition Magic Server 2003 . Such as Aomei Partition Assistant(http://www.extend-partition.com ), Acronis Disk Director(http://www.acronis.com ) ,ect.
Best Regard!
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March 7th, 2011 1:36pm
you can do as people sayd before me and i can confirm that it works (in a virtual environment)
move the physical disk to another server 2003 server.
expend using diskpart from the other OS install the physical disk back to the original server.
March 7th, 2011 3:25pm
Hi,
On Windows Server 2003, the Diskpart.exe utility supports only the extension of data partitions. System or boot partitions
may be blocked from being extended. For more information, please refer to:
Functionality restrictions of the Diskpart.exe utility to extend system and boot partitions in Windows Server 2003 and
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886986
You can try to use the methods or tools that other community members suggested. Anyway, please make a backup before extend
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March 8th, 2011 10:27am
Hi,
On Windows Server 2003, the Diskpart.exe utility supports only the extension of data partitions. System or boot partitions
may be blocked from being extended. For more information, please refer to:
Functionality restrictions of the Diskpart.exe utility to extend system and boot partitions in Windows Server 2003 and
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886986
You can try to use the methods or tools that other community members suggested. Anyway, please make a backup before extend
the system partition.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial
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thats true.
but if you mount the disk on another system its no longer considers as a boot or system partition.
March 8th, 2011 10:28am
People said
Aomei Partition Assistant Server
is the one can help you, that’s really a truth and you can totally rely on it for the extending your running our space C: drive. Only through drag and move can help you finish the work.
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March 9th, 2011 8:32am
Two choices:
Backup the files of the partition that behind your C drive, delete this partition and
extend C with diskpart.
Shrink the data partition and extend c drive with third party partition software, there is no need to delete or format partitions, see this guide how to
extend C drive in Windows 2003
March 20th, 2011 3:24pm
Hi Krishna,
I don't know if you have extended your C drive. But I think there is a better way to extend C drive without losing data.
In order to extend C drive, you must create some unallocated space from other partition. However, there is no resize feature in Disk Management in Windows 2003. Therefore, you need some third party software to complete the task.
There are many Partition Magic Server alternative. You can select one. What's more, there is a step by step guides:
Extend/Expand System Partition in Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 without Losing Data
http://www.partition-magic.org/server/extend-system-partition-c-drive.html
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April 8th, 2011 4:48am
You may try diskpart command line, the advantage is that it provides by microsoft and is free, meanwhile, it has disadvantages, for more about diskpart, see how to
extend partition on server 2003 with diskpart
You may also try other third party
Server partition software, for example, acronis disk director, partition master, partition wizard, partition assistant, etc. No matter which tool you choose, you'd better backup the system and files before any operations to the server.
See this detailed guide
how to extend c drive on server 2003, if the system partition is ntfs, you can extend it without rebooting the server to save time.
Works, thanks.
November 30th, 2011 7:12am
check here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverManagement/thread/2cebfecc-f8d5-4dfd-94e1-47e2db959928/
so many solutions to
c drive full problem, but a partition tool is a good choice here.
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May 29th, 2012 2:45am