How Do You Increase Size of Windows 200x Boot Volume?

Is there a rigorous algorithm for how to migrate a Windows 200x server's
boot volume to a larger partition on a different disk? I want to grow a
7.7GB boot partition on a 9GB drive to a 17.5GB boot partition on a 18 GB
drive.

I tried to just mirror from the smaller to the larger drive and
disconnecting the mirror and then extending the drive on the 18GB drive.
That doesn't work unfortunately because Windows complains the drive was
created as a standard disk and not a dynamic disk, so it cannot extend.

I tried to create the new boot partition from scratch as an NTFS volume and
then backup C: and restore to the new volume. The new volume is not seen
by Windows when booting. I tried to boot the recovery console and do a
fixboot, but no boot partition is seen. I tried fixmbr, and that rewrote
the mbr, but still it doesn't boot, and still I cann't issue fixboot in the
recovery console.

There are other scenarios I can try, but each of these takes a lot of time
to work through, and it would be great if Microsoft had documented how to do
this in a precise step by step fashion that is robust and will always work.

--
Will


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