I managed to do the following.
Original Config, 1 Basic Disk, 2 Partitions
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C:\ - ~4gb
D:\ - ~36gb
1) Backup D: to a different disk L:
2) Change Drive Letter of D: to K:
3) Change Drive Letter of L: to D:
4) Tested D: programs, and all worked
5) Now I can delete the old partition (originally D: but moved to L:
remember)
6) Now that partition is left as unallocated space.
7) Open DISKPART from CMD (support.microsoft.com/kb/300415) and issue the
following commands:
select volume c
extend
8) Pooof, unallocated space is now part of C:, which is now 40gb
Before this, I tried many tools and nothing worked. This though works, and
all is the way I want it. Disk is now 1 partition containing C, and D is a
different disk, and all works.
"James" wrote:
> Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> > "Pleo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> A Server has three 18.2G HDD (wide ultra3 SCSI-3 10kII) and have the
> >> following partition table on W2k Server.
> >>
> >> Disk0 (Dynamic, 33.91GB) - C: Capacity 2.93GB FAT D: Capacity 30.94GB
> >> NTFS
> >> Disk1 (Dynamic, 16.96GB) - D: Capacity 16.96GB NTFS
> >>
> >> Therefore the volume drive now has the following capacity
> >>
> >> Volume C: Simple Dynamic FAT Capacity:2.93GB Free:384M
> >> Volume D: Spanned Dynamic NTFS Capacity: 47.9GB Free:10GB
> >>
> >> Since system C drive remains only around 400M bytes, what tools can resize
> >> it? Just want to enlarge the system drive for installing windows update
> >> etc.
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > A system drive of 3 GBytes is grossly inadequate for a server.
> > 15 GBytes would be a more appropriate figure. AFAIK, none
> > of the current partition managers will touch dynamic partitions.
> > Your only choice would be to do this:
> >
> > 1. Connect the system disk as a slave disk to some other machine.
> > 2. Use xcopy.exe or robocopy.exe to copy both partitions to
> > a spare disk. Make sure to include ACLs and hidden files.
> > 3. Test the spare disk in the server.
> > 4. If it works, repartition the old disk, then reverse Step 2.
> >
> > By the way, in your cross-post you missed the most relevant
> > newsgroup: Microsoft.public.windows.server.general.
> >
> >
> Question: even though this is a server would Partition Magic or similar
> not allow the resizing without a problem. I have not used it for NTFS
> but have done workstations of W95, 98 & W2k for F16 & F32 formats
> without a glitch. A server is not that different from what I have seen.
>
> JT SoCal
>
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