Instruction to resize Windows Server 2003/2008/2000 system partition

Have you ever found your system partition is not large enough to install new software? Have you often had a slow computer because the system partition space is inefficient? How to solve all these problems? The best method is to resize server system partition: gather all free space on your hard drive for the existing partition with some reliable partition resizing software.

But for most server system users, resizing partition is not an easy work to do. A server is a very important part for a company system, which contains loads of significant data and files. If you do partition resizing with unreliable software, your precious files, your important data would be lost without any chance of recovery.

Fortunately, We have partition magic alternative - EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition. It is a powerful and inexpensive partition resizing software for Windows Server system.

How to resize server system partition with EaseUS Partition Master?

Tips: If there is no unallocated space right behind the system partition, please follow the above steps. If there is unallocated space behind the system partition, please skip step 2 and step 3, follow step 1, step 4 and step 5.

1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master.

Server partition manager software

2. Select partition E:, click "Resize/Move partition", and drag the partition handle leftwards to resize E drive.

Resize the data partition

3. Move E: drive rightwards to let the unallocated space be behind the system partition (C: drive) and click OK.

Move the data partition

4. Select the system partition (C: drive) and choose "Resize/Move partition", drag the partition handle rightwards to extend system partition (C: drive).

Extend system partition

5. Click Apply.

Except resizing and moving partitions, extending server system partition can be realized by combine two partitions together. This partition magic alternative can also extend/shrink dynamic volumes and convert dynamic disk to basic without deleting volumes.

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