Viewed k times. Can you please tell me how can I add the free space at the end of D: drive to C: drive? Improve this question. Gopinath Gopinath 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. With you can now do it online, even on the system partition. But the free space must be just after the partition to extend — Mathieu Chateau.
I agree with psbelot and would go with booting into the GParted live CD if you need to move the partitions around. It will let you move things around however you need, but definitely make sure you have backups first to be safe. Also, you might find the boot record gets messed up I did when I resized Server with GParted , and you'll need an install CD to fix it.
You can find instructions here: ezinearticles. Note: Having gparted move a partition on disk is a long, slow operation. You can try the Demo version firstly. Step 1. Right click on D partition and select " Resize Partition ". Step 2. In the pop-up window, drag the right slider bar leftwards to shrink D partition to free up unallocated space and click OK.
Step 3. You can find an unallocated space has been generated from D partition. Right click on D partition and select "Move Partition". It is not a good idear to extend C drive by deleting D, because all applications and Windows services that point to it stop working. In some situation, you cannot expand C even if you delete volume D, learn why Extend Volume grayed out in Server How to extend Windows Server partition with diskpart command Though Microsoft adds graphical user interface utility in Windows Server Disk Management to shrink and extend partition, many people still like to use diskpart command line.
Diskpart Command description In computing, diskpart is a command-line hard disk partitioning utility included in versions of the Windows NT operating system line from Windows onwards, replacing fdisk which was used in MS-DOS based operating systems. How to extend Windows data drive Step 1. 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:.
If there is unallocated space right behind the system partition, then you can do as below to use its Diskpart Command to extend system partition. Step 1. Step 2. Then execute the below commands in turn. 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.
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