How to resize a Windows 2003 partition?

Hi!

How can I resize on a windows 2003 server a partition ?


Regards,



gicio

There is a utility from Power Quest called PQ Magic. I use version 8.0 at work and it will allow you to resize partitions and just about anything related to partitions.

Later,
David Somers

Partition Magic 8 doesnt even install on a win2k3 server. I would like to have another answer to that question please!

Although I know this does not answer your specific question, if you are simply trying to add more space to a partition in Win 2003 you could add another hard drive and rather than giving that drive a letter, mount it withing a directory in your existing partition.

This will give the additional space as if you had a larger volume without having to actually resize that partition.

To do this, (and forgive me if I am not specific enough, I'm not in front of a server right now):
1. Create an empty folder in your existing partition This is where your new drive will be mounted
2. Add the new hard drive
3. Go to Computer Management (Control Panel --> Administrative Tools or Right Click My Computer and click Manage)
4. Go to Disk Management
5. Format the New Drive
6. Right Click on the Newly formatted drive
7. Choose Change Drive Letter and Paths
8. Click Add (I think this is here)
9. Choose Mount into the followinging empty NTFS Folder
10. Select the folder you created in step 1

When you look at the partition size it will be the same as before, because it has not truely changed. The icon for the folder you created in step 1 will change to the icon for a hard drive rather than a folder, but in any case, you can give your users more space this way without having to re-partition.

I hope this helps. I understand it doesn't do what you asked for, but if you are simply trying to get more space, then it may help.

You don't need to install PQ Magic on a Windows 2k3 server. Boot from a bootable disk and run the program from a DOS prompt. It will allow you to do what you want.

Later,
David Somers

But it won't.

Yes, it will boot from the floppy, but then it will take one look at the partition table and choke on it.
They put a check in to see which OS is on there and if it's a server version it won't run at all.

They produce an alternative product for servers (hence the purely marketing disablement) the name of which escapes me for the moment, that of course works fine and is just like PQ except it doesn't commit hare kiri when it sees a server os. Oh and it's about 10 times the price!

Bitbandit.

I have just installed Server 2003 and I am loving it: fast, efficient, powerful and still good for a home user (It's the only legal OS I can get to run). I really need to merge some partitions, PartitionMagic would make easy work of it, but... i can't instal it and I don't feel like waiting till PowerQuest (oh danm they got bought out by symantic) to release PM9, how can i do this? (I do not believe in floppy disks, bootable CD???)

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