Saturday, 17 September 2011

Ways to Resize Partition on Server 2000/2003/2008 with Partition Magic Server Software?

By Mark Osborne


Description of Windows Server partition problems

Usually, Operating System installed for the first time usually came with the improper partition distribution as the following Windows updates ignored. The simple truth is system partition used for storing this information as default requirements. Certainly, besides this circumstance, as the working developing needs, a lot more large size programs installed each day, therefore, the partition size goes improper concurrently.

Seek for solution to resize Windows Server partition

Several years ago, users can merely reinstall operating system to adjust partition size, nowadays, under the leadership of Symantec, various partition utilities developed for one purpose??help users solve the partition problems in daily work, partition magic Server software included because Windows Server OS is widely used by business or home Server users.

Compared with all these partitioning utilities, each has its own highlights. We follow our topic, resize partition, this is the main feature given in those partition utilities. Typically, partition manager holds the highly reputation. No matter from the working methods, or from the price.

Process of resizing partition on Windows Server

Step1: Launch Aomei Partition Assistant Server Edition, the following screenshot is the local computer disks/partitions information analyzed by Partition Assistant once opened.

Step2: Drag the double-head arrow by clicking D: like following two screenshots show, both left side and right side are available

Description: If we choose drag D: left side to right directly, generated unallocated space is behind the C: system partition, which means we can directly go the following extend C: system partition. If we choose drag D: right side to left, which also means the following extending operation can be realized on the condition that the unallocated space's location need move to behind the C: system partition. The following is the second situation??move unallocated space.

Note: Before committing the operations we did above, it is necessary to preview the changes in "Pending Operations" box for avoiding accidentally wrong operations. There are several buttons designed in toolbar, "Discard", "Undo" and "Redo" can cancel or correct the wrong operations. "Apply", which means the changes, will be taken into effect after clicking.

Summary: You shouldn't still feel helpless if you are pleased to choose helpful partition magic Server tool we recommended. On Server 2000/2003/2008, resize partition, such kind operations always seems so hard to realize, utilize Server partition manager, you will discover you have made a right choice.




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