Merge partitions

[spectramat]

We are on WIN 2003 standard Edition. The hard drive has two partitions C & E. The c:\ has the programs and E:\ has the sysvol. We are out of space on the C:\ drive. We want to merge the the C & E into C drive. How can this be done.

 

[monsterjta]

You could try something like Partition Magic.

Or, you could transfer all your data from E to some network location or external drive. Then take an image of C...I suggest Drive Image. Re-apply that image to the box, but use the entire drive. Then transfer all your E data back onto the C drive. I've done this before, and it proved to be a good solution.

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!

 

[itsfuntobeme]

If sysvol is not on c - you need to make it on c:. Sysvol is not a standard share. Apart from being important, it has symbolic links attached to it.

Once the sysvol is on c: - you can expand the partition using partition magic etc.

There are many things you can delete from the c:\ before this is needed - all of the $NTUpdate$ in c:\windows - if the patch has been installed for some time, delete it. The same goes for the $ServicePackFiles$ - but NOT the ServicepackFiles (No $ sign) - that is important. If you aren't using SFC, the DLL cache isn't that important either (but I don't recommend deleting it). Compression of old files also works. I do this stuff on some old terminal servers, that are down to <500MB space - usually get them back to 1.5Gb with the above... Then again - maybe you did this already

 

[spectramat]

Sysvol is not on c, so how do I move it?

 

[markdmac]

I agree that Partition Magic is the way to go, however have you evaluated WHY you are out of disk space on the C drive?

What applications are installed? Can they be moved? Have you deleted all outdated AV definitions? Those tend to gobble disk space. Have you deleted uninstall files for hotfixes you know work OK? (make a backup and archive it just in case you need to add them back some time down the road). Did you try moving the Print Spooler location?

Are you using ShadowCopy on the C drive? If so can you reduce the number of images you store to save disk space? Did you clear all temporary Internet files?

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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