How to make unallocated space in Windows Server system? Click to read more. By the way, if you already have made space unallocated, you can also extend C Drive in server disk management, steps to extend C Drive in Disk management are followed:. Step 2. In the command line window, type diskpart and press 'Enter'. Retry to extend data volume D: Diskpart is successfully extend a Windows data drive.
How to extend Server system volume with diskpart Better than Windows Server , Windows diskpart is able to extend system drive C:.
Redo "extend" Diskpart successfully extended the Windows system drive. Related Articles How to resize partition in Windows Server? How to resize Server partition? Diskpart shrink Windows partition How to resize partition in Server R2? How to merge Windows partitions? 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. Then you can allocate free space from D to C drive. In addition to the above way, there is still another way to extend system drive in Windows Server 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
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