Extending boot partition on Windows 2003 server

[Paritosh Pathak]

I have a server with Disk 0 that has two partitions.

Drive C (Boot OS) 4 GB

and Drive D

I would like to extend drive C to occupy entire Disk 0.

As I understand the diskpart utility on Windows 2003 will do this. By using
Select Partition and then Extend.

Now will this work if I do Select Disk and then try Extend? I need C drive
to have more space.

Regards
-paritosh

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Paritosh

You will need free contiguous space after C: in order to extend it. In
other words, delete D: first.

You can use diskpart.exe from "safe mode with command prompt" to expand
your system partition.

This is normally not recommended on the system partition, but usually works
anyway. Also see this MS Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325590

Another option is to perform an upgrade installation, as this article
describes:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325857

Volume Manager from Powerquest might also be an option.

Best regards

Bjorn
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Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking

[Paritosh Pathak]

Thanks. How do I restart manually in safe mode. The system configuration
utility on Windows 2003 did not seem to show an option for safe mode.

The other option seems to be F8, at boot time correct?

Regards
-Paritosh

I looked and hitting F8 at the magic moment seems to be the only option.
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[Bjorn Landemoo]

Paritosh

Yes, F8 is the correct option.

Best regards

Bjorn
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Hey,

I know this thread has exist for a long time, but I thinks there are still many people looking for a flexible way that could help re-sizing partition rather than use build in disk management, and Partition Magic is out of date, so there is a freeware AOMEI Partition Assistant Lite edition which could resize the partition smoothly, you can learn more: http://www.disk-partition.com/AOMEI-special-offer-10.html