How to resize SBS 2008 system partition with magic partition software?

Users who run Windows Small Business Server (SBS for short) always come across the following situation:

Your Small Business Server is running slowly as the system partition is used up. Then how to resize SBS 2008 system partition to solve system partition full?

To resize SBS 2008 system partition to optimize the performance of Small Business Servers is a significant topic for Server users. This article will give a brief introduction of Windows SBS 2008 and the method to resize SBS 2008 system partition without data loss.

How much do you know about Windows SBS 2008

Small Business Server 2008 (short for SBS 2008) was released to manufacturing on August 21st, 2008 and launched on November 12th, 2008. Based on Windows Server 2008, it includes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and 120-day trial subscriptions of new security products from Microsoft, namely, Forefront Security for Exchange and Windows Live OneCare for Server.

Features of Windows SBS 2008:

1. Affordable, integrated solution

Windows SBS 2008, designed for small businesses to work with existing technology, builds on Microsoft best practices, and delivers a comprehensive network at an affordable price.

2. Protect your business data

Windows SBS 2008 helps to protect your vital business information from loss. By backing up the data on your local Server computer to the network, it enables you to recover accidentally deleted files.

3. Grow your business capacity

Windows SBS 2008 gives you highly secure access to business contacts, calendars, e-mail, files, and other important desktop resources from any Internet-connected computer, virtually, anywhere at any time. So you can be productive while you're away from the office or on the road.

Resize SBS 2008 system partition with Server partition manager

As magic server partition manager, EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition can resize SBS 2008 system partition with simple operations by its "Resize/Move partition" feature. Furthermore, EaseUS Partition Master can extend NTFS system partition without rebooting the computer. The following is step-by-step instructions to extend SBS 2008 system volume (C: drive) with EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition.

1. Launch this partition manager software.

Server partition manager software

2. Select a partition you want to resize, right click it, select "Resize/Move partition" and drag the partition handle leftwards to adjust the partition size.

Resize the data partition

3. Move the partition rightwards to let the unallocated space be behind the C drive and click OK.

Move the data partition

4. Select the C drive, right click it and select "Resize/Move partition", drag the partition handle rightwards to extend it.

Extend C drive on SBS 2008

5. Click Apply.

For more detailed information, please visit resizing and moving partitions.

Extending partition size can also be realized by Merge partition in EaseUS Partition Master Home: How to merge two partitions?

EaseUS Partition Master provides Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk and Partition Copy Wizard features to offer a complete solution to solve your SBS 2008 Server disk and partition problems.

 

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