Re: Windows Server 2003 How To Extend Partition
Beatrice Pfliger
You can't "swap" them but you can move the recovery partition easily. Any 3rd party partitioning software can do that, like MiniTool Partition Wizard, AOMEI Partition Assistant, EaseUS Partition Master, Macrorit Partition Expert...
Or you can remove the recovery partition completely. There would be no problem since Windows 10 already has built-in refresh and reset feature to do factory reset. You can also create an image of the recovery partition and store it somewhere before removing the partition
However it is possible to create a partition that spans across various spaces with dynamic disk, which is the analog of Linux's LVM. Just convert the disk to dynamic and extend the partition to any available space
where you pick your OS drive by ID and the recovery partition by ID.And then you delete it. This is possible using the override keyword asking Windows to not consider that protected partition a protected protected partition for that short moment where you delete it.
Just note that you might need to change some flags for dism to work with a readonly image. i.e. I needed dism /mount-wim [...] /readonly and dism /unmount-wim [...] /discard when working from a dvd image, and then you also need to re-locate the RE path to your actual partition. just check it with /info to be sure it's in the right spot.
Moving the Windows Recovery partition to the end of the disk is (ironically) much easier with Linux. So if you already can boot a live Linux CD (or USB or over PXE), it probably has gparted which you can use to move the partition.
MacroIT Partition Tool, included on HirensBootCD can easily move the recovery partition to the end of the drive, HOWEVER resizing the primary should be done using windows disk management, as MacroIT Partition Tool leaves the filesystem as RAW (after resize operations).
I recently made this mistake, and whilst it was RAW windows allowed it to boot ONCE into the drive, letting me think that it had worked, then trying it once more made windows 10 fail in it's bluescreen with an NTFS Filesystem failure. (Luckily I took a backup)
I have a very important server running Windows Server 2003 and my System partition is becoming too small, it's slowing down the machine.I have already tried all the cleaning stuff and transferring some "unimportant softs" on the "Saves" partition but it didn't help much at all.Is there a way to re-partition my hard-drive that will work on a 2003 Server, that's not too expensive and that could be used without turning the machine off.If there is no other way, then I'll have to reinstall the OS, but it will have to wait for the weekend.Thanks for your suggestions.
If it's the system partition you want to expand, as far as I know, there's no way around a reboot. Personally, I fire up a GParted Live CD [link] and resize the partition (as long as you have enough space on the disk).
Moo is wrong, I've checked, even if you convert to dynamic disk, you cannot expand the system volume. Only simple volume and spanned volume can be extended, though the system is simple volume, it cannot be extended. It will cause problem worse if you convert to dynamic disk, as no software can resize it. You'd better resize the partition in basic disk. I used disk director, it is the best server partitioning tool. If others have this problem, see this tutorial, then you'll know how easy to solve this problem by resizing with disk director
Has some limitations (NTFS format, Basic disk types), but even though it's a Dell driver, it works perfectly on other vendors' hardware. I've been using it to extend the disks on a bunch of legacy VMware VMs (on HP servers) for quite a while and have yet to encounter any issues.
Also, when you do anything with diskpart, Disk Director or anything like that, remember to have a up-to-date and and tested backup as it's easy to do something fatally wrong, both for you and for the tools.
To increase the partition size with third party partition software, you just need to drag and move on the disk map to shrink a data partition, after that, extend the system partition with the unallocated space.
Hmm, I didn't think the C partition could be extended in Windows but haven't spent much time with 2008. Also, is there contiguous free space available on the disk after the C partition? That may be the problem.
(Linux instances only) If you are using logical volumes on the Amazon EBS volume, you must use Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to extend the logical volume. For instructions about how to do this, see the Extend the logical volume section in the How do I create an LVM logical volume on an entire EBS volume? AWS Knowledge Center article.
Note that device and partition naming differs for Xen instances and instances built on the Nitro System. To determine whether your instance is Xen-based or Nitro-based, use the describe-instance-types AWS CLI command as follows:
must supply partition-number: Indicates that you specified an incorrect partition. Use the lsblk command to confirm the partition name, and ensure that you enter a space between the device name and the partition number.
xfs_growfs: /data is not a mounted XFS filesystem: Indicates that you specified the incorrect mount point, or the file system is not XFS. To verify the mount point and file system type, use the df -hT command.
data size unchanged, skipping: Indicates that the file system already extends the entire volume. If the volume has no partitions, confirm that the volume modification succeeded. If the volume has partitions, ensure that the partition was extended as described in step 2.
The filesystem is already 3932160 blocks long. Nothing to do!: Indicates that the file system already extends the entire volume. If the volume has no partitions, confirm that the volume modification succeeded. If the volume has partitions, ensure that the partition was extended, as described in step 2.
Before extending a file system that contains valuable data, it is a best practice to create a snapshot of the volume that contains it in case you need to roll back your changes. For more information, see Create Amazon EBS snapshots.
In the Extend Volume wizard, choose Next. For Select the amount of space in MB, enter the number of megabytes by which to extend the volume. Generally, you specify the maximum available space. The highlighted text under Selected is the amount of space that is added, not the final size the volume will have. Complete the wizard.
If you increase the size of an NVMe volume on an instance that does not have the AWS NVMe driver, you must reboot the instance to enable Windows to see the new volume size. For more information about installing the AWS NVMe driver, see AWS NVMe drivers for Windows instances.
Most Windows Server 2016 users might find the partitions are not divided perfectly at the first time. As time goes by, there are chances that some partitions are too small for storage data, while some partitions are too big and leave a lot of unused space. Especially the system drive (usually the C drive) is more likely to run out of space quickly and then cause the whole operating system to slow down.
You can use three different useful tools to extend partition in Windows Server 2016. If there is a contiguous unallocated space behind the partition that you want to extend, you can choose the first or the second method. If not, employ the third one.
To use Disk Management to extend volume, you need to right-click the partition you want to extend (here we extend the system partition), select Extend Volume to get into this wizard to extend it step by step.
However, sometimes when you open the Disk Management to resize the partition, the Extend Volume is grayed out and you cannon extend volume in Windows Server 2016 as expected. As the "Extend Volume" option of the Disk Management still requires unallocated space behind the partition and adjacent to it. If there is no unallocated space nearly to it, the Extend Volume would be grayed out like the following picture, so that you cannot extend volume.
From above, we know that users cannot extend volume with Disk Management and Diskpart when there is no contiguous unallocated space. Fortunately, you can use other partition management software like AOMEI Partition Assistant Server to increase both NTFS and FAT32 partition size more flexibly and easily. To increase disk space Windows Server 2016, it provides at least 3 methods. Install, run this software, and have a look at how it works.
With the help of AOMEI Partition Assistant Server, you can extend Windows Server 2016 partitions more flexibly, no matter whether there is an adjacent unallocated space or not. Even when the Extend Volume grayed out in Disk Management, you can find out more than one way to extend a volume from AOMEI Partition Assistant for Windows Server 2016.
To install this wonderful program on an unlimited number of computers within one company to save money, you can try AOMEI Partition Assistant Unlimited. What's more, the Technician version is specially designed for technicians to provide billable services & unlimited for enterprise usage. And the Unlimited and Technician have a useful feature, Create Portable Version, which can create AOMEI Partition Assistant to a removable device.
Every system comes with a built-in partition. Even so, the system nowadays has sufficient capacity. However, no matter how large the storage capacity is, several factors such as installed apps, cache memory, and temporary files contribute to the overall space usage. These files quickly fill up the available space. You may not notice it or be unaware of it. Yet, it does take up space on your computer. You keep your data in the specified capacity. Some versions of Windows include an extra partition called the window recovery partition.
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