Increasing Space of C Drive Windows 2003 Server

[jeena143]

Hello

I have a windows 2003 server. The C drive is running out of space which gives me a low disk space warning and E drive on the same server has 150 GB free space.Is there any way of increasing the space of C drive using the free space which is available on E drive.


Thanks

 

[TheMisio]

jeena143,

Personally, I wouldn’t temper with a system drive. It’s asking for problems. What is the size of you C drive?
Can you move some stuff from drive C to E? Microsoft does not support extending system volume (i.e. using dynamic volume).

The safest option (which I’ve done many times in the past) is to use Microsoft Automated Deployment Services (it’s free). You can image your drive, repartition or swap you C drive with a beiger one, and push the image back. It works like a charm. It requires installing ADS on a separate machine, but it’s easy to use and since it’s Microsoft’s, it supports Windows OSs.

Alternatively, you can use some 3rd party imaging software but you’ll need to pay for it, and Microsoft won’t support it.

Regards,

Michael

 

[Roadki11]

Ive used Ghost many times to do this. The simplest way is to slave in another hard drive and ghost both partitions to file to it. Then ghost it back resizing the partions when you do.



RoadKi11

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[normntwrk]

I used Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Server edition to expand the C partition onto an existing D partition of a Win2003 server, isn't cheap but worked flawlessly for me.

Norm

 

[LWComputingMVP]

I would save your money and instead manage the server differently. I find 12 GB is more than enough space when a server is setup appropriately.

For a list of 20+ things you can do to reclaim disk space, please see

http://www2.lwcomputing.com/tips/static/bootdrivesize.asp

-Lee

Those who ask why, learn

http://www.lwcomputing.com