Shrink Windows Server 2008 volume with magic server volume manager software

Why to shrink Windows Server 2008 volume?

Why should we shrink Windows Server 2008 volume? It's a common situation that you estimate the suitable size for each partition and then split the hard drive into a few volumes. But it turns out that you under-estimated how much space the system drive will take. The system partition can be soon used up as you continously install new applications on your computer. Your Server may run extremely slow and disturb your daily work. Only at this time you see the importance to shrink Windows Server 2008 volume, to resize or extend your system partition.

Why to choose EaseUS Partition Master to shrink Windows Server 2008 volume?

Windows Server 2008 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista. So, they share some parts of the architecture and functionality. Though we can use its embedded disk management to shrink Windows Server 2008 volume and resize the partitions, there is fatal defect: It can only extend a partition when there is continuous unallocated space right behind it. If there is no unallocated space after, it cannot enlarge the partition. This defect exists because it can not move the partition and if the continuous unallocated space on the left of the partition you want to extend, you cannot extend it with unallocated space by Windows Disk Management.

What's more, as a Windows Server 2008 user, I always think that Windows 2008 disk management is not an easy task to do. How to ensure your data security when partitioning your Server? What should I do the next step?

This article will introduce you a reliable Server partition software to shrink partition on Windows Server 2008 without data loss. EaseUS Partition Master Server is an easy-to-use partition software. With friendly user interface, it will guide you to finish the partitioning easily. What's more, its resize/move partition function can work perfectly for you to partition your Server without data loss and "Merge partition" function can quickly expand partition size to solve low disk space. It supports Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 32-bit & 64-bit MBR and GPT disk.

How to shrink Windows Server 2008 volume with EaseUS Partition Master?

We recommend you to free download a demo of EaseUS Windows Server 2008 shrink volume utility - EaseUS Partition Master Server. Follow the instruction below to resize your Server 2008 partition.

Tips: It is important to back up the server before shrinking volume on Windows Server 2008, because nothing is 100% secure.

Firstly, select the partition that you want to shrink. In this case, we take partition D as an example. Then click Partitions > Resize/Move partition.

Shrink Windows Server 2008 volume with EaseUS Partition Master

On the disk layout, you may check the current size of all the partitions on your Windows Server 2008 in a very intuitional way. The layout diagram also depicts free space surrounding the partition if any exists. The maximum size that you can shrink a Windows Server 2008 volume depends on the usage of the partition.

The next step, position the mouse on the left or right partition handles and drags the handle to shrink the partition size as you want.

At last, click "Apply" to execute the operations. You would have a shrunk D: drive. With the unallocated space you can extend Windows Server 2008 system partition or any other partitions as you wish, like C: drive.

 

 

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