How to increase boot partition size?

I am an IT administrator and usually deal with partitioning or resizing of Windows Server. Recently one of my friends asks me to help him to partition his personal computer. It has an 80 Gigabytes hard drive with four partitions and the Windows XP is mounted on the boot partition. Unfortunately, when he initially configures his system he sized his "C" boot partition too small. If the boot partition C: drive is out of space, the partitions will fight for the precious space with each other and run slowly with the installing of too many programs. So the key point is to increase boot partition size. He visits some internet forums and many suggestions about using Disk Manager built-in the Windows. He had a try of increasing boot partition size but failed in this way. He right clicks on his D: drive and deletes that partition so that to allocate the space of the D: drive to the C: drive. A prompt dialogue window indicates that all the data on the D: drive will lose if he deletes the partition. He couldn't make the decision of deleting all the important data on drive D: or remove all the files stored in the drive by using long time to increase boot partition size. Then he asked me for help to increase boot partition size without losing data.

As known to us, it can only be done with 3rd party utilities to resize the partition size. Which is the best one when you face a lot of partition utilities are spreading in the market? Here I will introduce a trustable partition software - EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition, which enables you to increase or decrease boot partition size without data loss. Even more EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition is the best value server partition software to partition server disk for IT administrators, and the Unlimited Edition allows you to use it on multiple machines within one company. It manages Windows Server fast and stably. You may perform basic and advanced partition operations on your servers, including: create and deleted partitions, resize and move partitions, Copy Partition, Copy Disk, format partitions, hide and unhide partitions, set active partition, etc. Changes of server partition can be previewed before applying and all data is completely protected during all operations.

Here is the detail introduction of increasing boot partition size with EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition. You'd better to make a backup before resizing. Increase system C: drive and decrease D: drive as following:

First, launch EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition, current size of the partition is displayed on the top of the dialog box. The map also depicts the used and unused space within the partition and the free space surrounding the partition (if any exists). The minimum and maximum sizes that you can resize a partition appear below the map.

Second, Click D: drive, position the mouse pointer on the right partition handle, the mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow and drag the handle to the partition size you want. And then move the D: drive to make the unallocated space 10 gig next to C: drive.

Third, Click C: drive, position the mouse pointer on the right partition handle and resize it with the 10 gig unallocated space. Click Apply. After reboot, you will successfully increase your boot partition size without data loss.

From above, it makes it very easy to increase the boot partition size with EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition. Besides, it is compatible with Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and non-server 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 32 and 64 bit systems on one machine. You may download and have a free try here.

For better data security, you may also use the free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup, which will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition within minutes.

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