How to extend SBS 2003 server partition without data loss?

Extend SBS 2003 server partition is a common issue for a great number of Windows server users. Here's a typical example.

The C: drive on my SBS 2003 server is too small. The RAID array is about 40GB but only 9 GB is given for the C: drive and it has run out of space. So I cannot install service packs, extra software, etc. What method should I use to extend the SBS 2003 server partition? I would like to preserve the Windows installation and everything on the C: drive if at all possible.

From above, we can find that server users need to extend SBS 2003 server partition in order to optimize the performance. And the safety of data on the partition to be extended is of vital importance. To answer the question in this case, we'd like to talk about Windows SBS 2003 Disk Management as well as easy and magic server partition manager software to extend SBS 2003 server partition.

Extend Windows SBS 2003 with Disk Management

Windows Small Business Server (SBS) is an integrated server suite from Microsoft designed for running network infrastructure of small and medium enterprises. While Windows SBS 2003 is widely used among small and medium enterprises, is it the Disk Management utility built in Windows Operating System they use to as partition manager? Well, this is the common way. Basic operations are allowed, such as creating partition, deleting partition, formatting partition, setting active partition, etc. However, if you want to extend SBS 2003 server partition, this utility is far from enough to do the trick. What you need is professional partition manager software with more advanced functions, such as resizing server partition, to fulfill your needs to extend SBS 2003 server partition or perform other operations to partition Windows SBS 2003.

Extend SBS 2003 server partition without data loss

By better solution to extend SBS 2003 server partition, we mean this solution not only provides more powerful features, but also is fairly easy and safe to carry out. As discussed above, the solution we talk about here is professional third party magic server partition software. Based upon many users' true experience, professional server partition software named EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition is highly recommended to partition Windows SBS 2003, especially to extend SBS 2003 server partition.

With EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition, you may perform both basic and advanced partition operations on your servers without data loss, including: Resize and Move partitions, Copy Partition, Copy Disk, Create and Delete partitions, Format partitions, Convert partitions, Explore partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions, set active partition, etc. Changes of server partition can be previewed before applying to hard disk.

You may wonder how to extend SBS 2003 server partition with this program. Well, this operation can be perfectly implemented through the resizing function.

To extend SBS 2003 server partition, you free download a demo and follow the steps below:

The following is step-by-step instruction to extend system partition (C: drive).

1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master.

If there is no unallocated space behind the system partition, please follow the below steps. If there is unallocated space behind the system partition, please directly go to step 4.

2. Select partition E:, right click it, select "Resize/Move partition" and drag the partition handle leftwards to resize E drive. Then there will be unallocated space behind E: drive.

3. Move E: drive rightwards to let the unallocated space be behind the system partition (C: drive) and click OK.

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

5. Click Apply.

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

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