RE: Increase 2003 boot drive

There is a little known command called Diskpart that allows you to extend
the size of a partition. The requirement is that there be available space on
the drive.

I am a big advocate of never partitioning a disk without a real bad need to
because of things like this.

To address your issue I will make an assumption.
OS on 1 partition, Apps and stuff on the other.
There are several things you can do to free up disk space.

1) put page file on second partition or better yet a seperate disk. *Myth*
spreading the page file over multiple partitions increases performance. Its
disks, not partitions.
2) turn off hybernation if its on.
3) Move all temp directories to the other partition.


If it was me I would probably drop two drives in as a dedicated mirror for
the OS ( a couple of 18 gb SCSI drives, 9GB if I was pressed) reinstall os
there and then get all the apps working again, make sure that the new os set
has active status transferred is marked as boot drive and has all the
required files to boot, kill old OS part and use diskpart to extend old app
part to full disk size.

"David C" wrote:

> Help! I am very low on disk space remaining on my boot (C:) drive on my
> Windows 2003 Std server. Is there any way short of re-loading to increase
> the size of the boot drive? I have tons of space on the 2nd partition (E:).
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
>
>
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