That means, it cannot extend C drive by shrinking any other volume. Although it runs in different way, it has same shortages with Disk Management. Diskpart Commandsĭiskpart is another Windows built-in utility but runs by command prompt. The problem is, after shrinking D: drive D: or any partition, Unallocated space is nonadjacent to C drive, therefore, Extend Volume function is always grayed out. To extend a drive with Disk Management, there must be next contiguous Unallocated space. Though Server 2008 Disk Management has ' Shrink Volume' and 'Extend Volume' functions to change partition size, it cannot extend C drive in Windows 2008 server by shrinking any other volume. But it's not true, it damaged my server several times when shrinking partition, especially when there are both Primary and Logical partitions on the same disk. Which tool to extend C drive in Windows Server 2008 Disk ManagementĪfter searching by Google or in Microsoft forum, some people suggest resizing Windows 2008 partition with Disk Management, because they think that native tool has best compability. Of course, running safe disk partition tool. New computer technology make things much easier, nowadays, you can extend C drive by taking free space from other partition without losing data. Originally, when there is no free space left in system C drive, if you want to solve this problem without reinstalling OS and programs, you have to backup, delete and recreate larger C drive and then restore everything. This article introduces which tools have the ability to extend partition and how to extend C drive in Windows Server 2008 and R2 in a safe way.
Although Windows Server 2008 has been released for such a long time, many companies still use this operating system to manage servers. Many people have trouble extending system C: drive on Windows 2008 Server.
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