Windows 2003 disk is at or near capacity

Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. I am going to add an external drive array to a Windows Server Is there a size limit to the mapping of this array? I would like the array size to be approximately 4 TB. Share Flag. All Answers. Collapse -.

Provided that it's external. Use ExtPart. Has some limitations NTFS format, Basic disk types , but even though it's a Dell driver, it works perfectly on other vendors' hardware.

I've been using it to extend the disks on a bunch of legacy VMware VMs on HP servers for quite a while and have yet to encounter any issues. If it is not using the entire disk, you could use diskpart. By the way your question is phrased, I am assuming that is the case.

This would not require a full re-install of the OS, but it would require down time. The easiest way would be to clone the drive onto a large disk using something like Symantec Ghost. If I remember correctly, diskpart will work only in special cases, namely when you have free space without any partitions on it, as it won't shrink other partitions.

Disk Director or other tools like that will happily do this when there is enough free space. It can take a lot of time though. If downtime is a concern, I would copy the disk onto another bigger one with a better disk layout, as you can do most of this in a running system, at least with Acronis True Image. Also, when you do anything with diskpart, Disk Director or anything like that, remember to have a up-to-date and and tested backup as it's easy to do something fatally wrong, both for you and for the tools.

To increase the partition size, you may try diskpart command line , which is free and provides by microsoft, but has some disadvantages, it is not the best tool to change the partition size. To increase the partition size with third party partition software, you just need to drag and move on the disk map to shrink a data partition, after that, extend the system partition with the unallocated space.

If the system partition is NTFS, you can extend it without rebooting the server to save time, see more details how to increase partition size on server Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 7 months ago. The whole process can be easy and effective. Now, have a look at the tutorial about how to use it to extend Server R2 C drive. Step 1. Run the software, right-click the partition with enough space here is D drive , and choose Allocate Free Space.

Step 2. In the small pop-up window, you can adjust the space that you want to allocate from D drive and choose C drive as the destination drive. Then, click OK. Step 3. Go to the main console automatically and you can preview the result of the operation.