Extend volume windows 2008

And you cannot move partition in Disk Management. Therefore, you have to delete the partition behind C: drive to get contiguous unallocated space. Here, you can see the Extend Volume option grayed out since there is no unallocated space right after it. So we need to delete the D partition first to get such a space.

Step 3. Right-click the D: drive, and select "Delete Volume". Step 4. Then follow the "Extend Volume Wizard" to completing extending system partition in Server From above, we can know Windows native tools can only extend OS partition in Server when a contiguous allocated free space is behind the target partition.

Deleting an existing partition to fulfill this precondition will lead to data loss. Backing up volume first and then restoring it after system partition expansion can be a workaround, but it is kind of time-consuming.

So, is there a way to extend system partition on Server without deleting partition? Similar to Windows 7, in Windows Server , its built-in disk manager-Disk Management also can be used to resize partition size. Step 1. Step 2. Then you can type the amount of space to shrink in MB. You can shrink half space of the partition at most. Step 3. Then after you finish shrink volume, here you can see there is some unallocated space.

From this screenshot, the space is behind d drive. Because if the unallocated space is not next to a partition you want to extend, this feature cannot work, but if it is behind the partition, you can easily extend volume to change partition size in Windows As a workaround, you have to delete the partition here is D drive first after the to-be-extended volume, and then extend the C drive successfully.

Right click the partition which has lots of unused space and select "Allocate Free Space". Step 2. Here you can input the capacity in MB you decide to move to the destination partition and click on "OK". In this situation, we need to know "primary partition", "extended partition" and "logical drive". On a MBR disk, there can be 4 primary partitions at most. To create more, we have to convert one primary partition to extended partition, within which we can create unlimited logical drives.

Delete a primary partition and we can get "unallocated space", while deleting a logical drive generates "free space". The "unallocated space" can only be used to extend primary partition while the "free space" can only be used to extend a logical drive. That's why many users find there is adjacent free space next to the volume they plan to extend, but the "Extend Volume" feature still greyed out.

In this case, we need to delete all logical volumes inside the extended partition and the extended partition itself. Then get adjacent unallocated space not free space and extend another partition in Disk Management. Before we download any server disk partition manager, we shall make a list of requirements the software should follow:. OK, that's part of the thing we shall list before we proceed to partition software.

As server administers, I think you can add more to the list.