How to extend the 'C: Drive' system partion, without rebooting 2003 server

Ibrahim Quraishi — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:02:30 +0000

ExtPart from Dell. its a simple command line utility easy to use tool to expand or extend the size of your C drive provided you have more disk space or another partition that is un-formated.

Dell Basic Disk Expansion

The ExtPart utility provides support for online volume expansion of NTFS formatted basic disks. This is a self extracting file that will install the extpart.exe utility. No reboot is necessary.

Please note some people think that ExtPart does not work on 64 bit OS of Windows 2003, but just to let you know it does work, its just the extractable binary is only 32 bit so it will give you an error that its a 32 bit application if you execute it on a 64 bit windows.

I have used it recently, deployed a virtual machine from a template, the template had the OS installed on only 20 GB. I added more size to the HDD from the data store, from the windows side in the disk management I can see the raw partition, all I had to do is create a new partition and used the dell ExtPart follow the steps and I will extend the C drive, you will not need to reboot the server.

The solution is to extract the binary after downloading on a 32 bit OS and use it on a 64 bit OS and its work. Their you go! you can now expand the C drive with out rebooting the OS the link given below takes you to Dell website what has the ExtPart utility : https://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails?driverId=R64398 Hope you find my post useful and if you have any question please feel free to comment below.]]>

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How to extend the 'C: Drive' system partion, without rebooting 2003 server