It’s probably hard for you to believe there are still so many people use Windows Server 2000, as even Windows Server 2008 has been released for such a long time. This article is going to introduce how to resize Windows 2000 server partition.
Question: I have a desktop computer that is used primarily for storing and backing up shared files. It is running Windows 2000 server. When setting up, I created 2 partitions: 20 GB (system) and 100 GB (Data), and 30GB unallocated space. I now need to resize partition on Windows 2000 server so that I could increase my system partition, but its built-in Disk Management is unable to extend volume. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Everybody knows that Windows 2000 built-in Disk Management tool has no Extend and Shrink Volume feature, not to mention extend system partition. So when the hard disk was partitioned, it will be hard to change the distribution. However, you can resort to 3thd party software, like Partition Assistant, which can fix all kinds of disk problems. Here we will take the above question for example to demonstrate how to resize partition in Windows 2000 with this partition magic server software.
Step 1. Launch Partition Assistant server and you'll see all disks and volumes that connected to your Server and unallocated space and other properties of each volume.
Step 2. Right-click D and select "Resize/Move Partition" from the menu. In the pop-up window, drag the left border rightwards to shrink it. Then there will be some unallocated space behind C drive.
Step 3. Right-click C and select "Resize Partition". In the pop-up window, drag the right border rightwards to extend C drive into the unallocated space.
Step 4. Click "Apply" on the toolbar to proceed.
From the demonstrations above; you can know it is simple and easy to extend C drive with this magic software. If there is no unallocated space on the hard drive, you can even move space from one partition to another without the need to create unallocated space by shrinking a partition. And you don’t need to format the hard drive and repartition it again.