Extend disk windows 2008

Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Applies To: Windows 10, Windows 8. You can use Disk Management to add space to an existing volume, extending it into empty space on the drive, but only if the empty space doesn't have a volume on it it's unallocated and comes immediately after the volume you want to extend, with no other volumes in-between, as shown in the following image.

If there is no unallocated space after the system volume you need to expand, you must delete the volume which is located after the C drive first, then add the generated free space to system partition.

So some extra commands will be executed. Warning : Deleting partition will cause data loss, so please back up anything vital via the free backup software in advance if you want to extend OS partition in Server without losing data. Like DiskPart, it also needs contiguous unallocated space to extend a target partition. 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 Diskpart successfully extended system partition. When the error appears, you can open Disk Management, where you will find that there is no unallocated free space right after system drive. From the above content, we can know it is not a great idea to extend C drive in Diskpart when there is no unallocated space following to it and you have to delete the data partition D because deleting partition D means data loss and backing up a partition is not as easy as it sounds.

At this time, you should search for some substitute software to make up for the deficiency of Diskpart. It is designed for Windows Server users to manage disk and partition. That is to say, it not only works on Windows Server R2 but also works well on other Windows Server operating systems like Windows Server , , , , and Briefly, it can be used to solve low disk space problem in all Server computers when your C drive is running out of space.

Much more powerful than Diskpart. First of all, launch this software and go to its main interface, and then follow the steps. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:.

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