command Extending C drive Partition in windows 2008 ser ver
How to extend the C Drive partition which is a Basic disk in windows 2008, since i'm having less space i.e 40 GB. Can i able to take from D drive which has 250 GB Space. is there any command. I tried with DISKPART Command. But its giving error.
Help me.
March 5th, 2011 11:19am
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 > Exit
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March 5th, 2011 11:41am
Hi Bhaskars1508,
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 2008 Server, 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.
The detailed steps to extend C drive partition in Windows Server 2008 Server refer to:
http://www.extend-partition.com/partition-magic/windows-2008-extend-volume.html
Best Regard!
March 8th, 2011 11:06am
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March 8th, 2011 11:26am
Hi there,
If you want to extend C drive partition size by DISKPART command, there should be have continuesly free space next to the system drive. Otherwise, you will have to use 3rd party tools to do this as the above persons suggest.
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March 8th, 2011 11:29am
There is no shrink and extend partition feature under server 2003 disk management, that is the reason why using diskpart, but in server 2008, you can do this under disk management with step by step guide.
No matter you use diskpart or disk management, there is should be unallocated space behind the c drive, you have to delete drive D to get the unallocated space.
With third party
server partition software, you don't have to delete partitions just resize to shrink and extend partitions, see this guide how to
extend c drive on server 2008.
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March 10th, 2011 1:07pm
With third party partition magic, you can
resize partition without data loss,
see this guide on how to manage partitions:
http://www.partitionmagicserver.com/help/resize-partition.html
September 20th, 2011 1:40am