Enlarge system partition (c:) on Windows 2003 Server

Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c on Windows 2003 Server?
I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a
server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,
short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

Well, if you have extra space then you might check out diskpart and
see if that will work.

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:18:02 -0800, Just Guessing
<> wrote:

>Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c on Windows 2003 Server?
>I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a
>server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,
>short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

no diskpart magic on the system partition.

take a verfied good backup of teh server, even an extra image of the disk
for safety and than use the free tool gparted live cd (google it and read
the manual) to extend the c partition

cheers
"Brett I. Holcomb" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Well, if you have extra space then you might check out diskpart and
> see if that will work.
>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:18:02 -0800, Just Guessing
> <> wrote:
>
>>Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c on Windows 2003
>>Server?
>>I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a
>>server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing
>>it,
>>short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

I have used the server edition of Paragon Partition Manager to expand system
partition on Win2003 servers without any problem.
http://www.partition-manager.com/

"Just Guessing" wrote:

> Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c on Windows 2003 Server?
> I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a
> server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,
> short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

I highly recommended easeus partition master server, I just to say it is a terrific software! It is much cheaper.
http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...anager-server/

> On Sunday, December 16, 2007 7:18 PM JustGuessin wrote:

> Is there a way to enlarge the system partition (c on Windows 2003 Server?
> I have heard that typical repartitioning software isn't recommended on a
> server. Has anyone ever done it? Or is there an acceptible way of doing it,
> short of reinstalling Windows? Thanks!


>> On Sunday, December 16, 2007 7:59 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

>> Well, if you have extra space then you might check out diskpart and
>> see if that will work.


>>> On Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:54 PM WorkingHard wrote:

>>> no diskpart magic on the system partition.
>>>
>>> take a verfied good backup of teh server, even an extra image of the disk
>>> for safety and than use the free tool gparted live cd (google it and read
>>> the manual) to extend the c partition
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> "Brett I. Holcomb" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...


>>>> On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:30 AM Daveg wrote:

>>>> If you can leverage drive expansion from the hardware array to add
>>>> capacity to c:, so that you will so the new free space as unallocated
>>>> on the same disk that C: partition resides, diskpart may work. You
>>>> cannot use diskpart when the OS, page file etc are in use however, you
>>>> might try booting to WinPE 2.0 and then using diskpart to expand c: as
>>>> it is no longer in use and should expand.
>>>>
>>>> daveg


>>>>> On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:18 PM NickPayn wrote:

>>>>> I have used the server edition of Paragon Partition Manager to expand system
>>>>> partition on Win2003 servers without any problem.
>>>>> http://www.partition-manager.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> "Just Guessing" wrote: