Partition - Extend - Windows 2000 Pro

Hi,

Running out of space on my hard drive.

My C Drive is one-third of the Hard Drive space.

The rest of the two-third is unallocated.

I had orginaally planned to load linux on the unallocated space. Never got round to it.

How can I now extend the present C drive space by a further amount and

also create Drive ' D ' for saving some files.

I don't want to lose the data in the existing drive C

Appreciate some help.

Thanks

JM_

In reply to a post by JM_:

How can I now extend the present C drive space by a further amount and

also create Drive ' D ' for saving some files.

By using one of these programs or similar:

Acronis Disk Director 10.0
Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
Paragon Partition Manager 10 Personal

Before you resize your partitions I recommend you backup your data. This would be a preventative measure to ensure you remove the risk of data loss or corruption.

or gparted a free (open source) utility that runs as a boot disk

Hi,

Thanks for all those links. I will have a look at therm.

Jparted Free looks interesting.


JM

There is a Microsoft add-on tool which enhances Disk Management call diskpart.exe. This is what you need. I used it on Windows 2000 and it is easy, free and Microsoft supported.

Hi

rnewfie ,

Thanks for that info.

I am looking at the web site :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fami...


I can't make out how to use it.

Do I just download it and set-up within the Windows 2000

or do I download it on a floppy and boot up the PC with the floppy ???

How did you use it ?

Thanks

JM

Hi,

Just looking at this further .

Do I need to download the above and also the following :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fami...


This refers to XP whereas I have got Windows 2000 Pro.

Thanks

JM

Hi,

I have not downloaded the above yet.

I have looked at the Computer Management.

it shows :

( C : )

7.66 GB NTFS Healthy System

11.48 GB Unallocated.


I 'd like to extend ( C drive ) to 16 GB

The rest 3.14 GB I'd like to create Drive D.

What steps do I have to take.

Also the unallocated space does not show whether it is NTFS. Does that matter.

Thanks

JM_

In reply to a post by JM_:

Hi,

Just looking at this further .

Do I need to download the above and also the following :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fami...


This refers to XP whereas I have got Windows 2000 Pro.

Thanks

JM

Here's what you need:

microsoft.com DiskPart.exe - Version for Windows 2000 Professional

In reply to a post by JM_:

Hi

rnewfie ,

Thanks for that info.

I am looking at the web site :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fami...


I can't make out how to use it.

Do I just download it and set-up within the Windows 2000

or do I download it on a floppy and boot up the PC with the floppy ???

How did you use it ?

Thanks

JM

And here is the support page from Microsoft titled:
How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows 2000, and in Windows Server 2008

Microsoft make the following points:

Note In Windows XP and in Windows 2000, you cannot use Diskpart.exe to extend a simple volume on a Dynamic disk that was originally created on a Basic disk. You can extend only simple volumes that were created after the disk was upgraded to Dynamic disk. If you try to extend a simple volume on a Dynamic disk that was originally created on a Basic disk, you receive the following error message. This restriction was removed in Windows Server 2003.

Diskpart failed to extend the volume.
Please make sure the volume is valid for extending

Note You can only extend the boot partition in contiguous unallocated disk space.

Note We recommend that you contact your system vendor for updated BIOS, firmware, drivers, and agents before you convert to Dynamic disks.

Edited by cozumel (Tue 09-Jun-09 00:16:21)