Expanding C: drive

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Is there anyway to expand the C (boot drive) in Win2000 Server.
I want to add space from existing available (unallocated) space.

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"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

> You can, however, almost certainly do this with Partition magic, but make
> sure everything is backed up first.

This can be tricky because Partition Magic does not work on server OS's.
One trick is to move disk to a system with client OS installed (Win2kPro or
WinXP) and resize partition from there.
But this can also be dangerous. If your original Win2k Server disk changes
drive letter (e.g. from C: to E, you must erase drive signature before
returning disk back. You do this with diskpart or "fdisk mbr".
Failing to do this can give you big problems (immediate log off after log
on).

Dusko Savatovic

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Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Dusko Savatovic wrote:
>
> > This can be tricky because Partition Magic does not work on server OS's.
>
> Really? Well that's good to know. I've never tried it but always
> assumed it was an option...

I am not sure what he is talking about. I just boot Partition Magic
from floppy and then I can resize anything. (The floppy version does
not even know what OS is installed, much less care.)

I have certainly done this with "server" OSes.

- Pat
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

This problem is easy to solve, backup you files and resize the partitions directly by partition magic alternative, it works well on Server 2000 to 2008, there is a tutorial http://www.partition-tool.com/reso [...] server.htm