How to extend the windows 2003 C drive ..? one of my DC is running out of space. Please advice Krishna

You can use third party tools like partition magic or acronisWith kind regards Krystian Zieja http://www.projectnenvision.com Follow me on twitter My Blog

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

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

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.

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 to other community members reading the thread.

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 to other community members reading the thread. thats true. but if you mount the disk on another system its no longer considers as a boot or system partition.

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

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.

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.

http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/extend-system-partition-server-2003.htm follow this link, download server edition software & it works ....... I have successfully extended my c drive partition. 'diskpart' commands will never works for extend partition.

HI Krishna, I was also looking for a solution to increase OS drive in windows 2003. Some technical people says that, if you have available unalocated space on the same HDD , you can increase it using DISKPART. I have tried DISKPART but no luck. you can use it to increase DATA drive only. FULL day, i worked on the same using multiple tools and utilities and found a solution :). If you have unalocated space on the same disk, you can use EXTPART (it is a dell utility) and simply it works. If any one has any alternate/perfect solution on this, PLease let me know. Thanks & Regards, Masud Hussain Thank you. extpart works fantastically, and it's free from dell http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails?driverId=R64398 It appears as though the maker of this "partition magic" tool" has invaded almost every top result from google about this question pushing their software as the solution. EXTPART works as easily as diskpart on 2003 boot partitions. I expanded the size of a disk on a VM in ESXi and needed to extend the partition in the guest OS which is server 2003 R2. just download extpart, extract it and follow the syntax in the extpart.txt file that is extracted.

HI Krishna, I was also looking for a solution to increase OS drive in windows 2003. Some technical people says that, if you have available unalocated space on the same HDD , you can increase it using DISKPART. I have tried DISKPART but no luck. you can use it to increase DATA drive only. FULL day, i worked on the same using multiple tools and utilities and found a solution :). If you have unalocated space on the same disk, you can use EXTPART (it is a dell utility) and simply it works. If any one has any alternate/perfect solution on this, PLease let me know. Thanks & Regards, Masud Hussain Thank you. extpart works fantastically, and it's free from dell http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails?driverId=R64398 It appears as though the maker of this "partition magic" tool" has invaded almost every top result from google about this question pushing their software as the solution. EXTPART works as easily as diskpart on 2003 boot partitions. I expanded the size of a disk on a VM in ESXi and needed to extend the partition in the guest OS which is server 2003 R2. just download extpart, extract it and follow the syntax in the extpart.txt file that is extracted. So glad I found this thread, and your post.. ExtPart worked perfectly, simple and effective. Expanded the c: drive on my win 2003 VM without any problems at all. Use this tool from Dell, works perfectly.

If you mount the disk on another system its no longer considers as a boot or system partition. If you are running a Hyper-V environment, you have additional servers sitting right there. Just mount the VHD into another server and extend using DISKPART. Mount back to the original server and you are done, no additional software required. Granted, this approach requires you shut down the virtual machine whose disk you are extending. Zachary

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