Extend system partition

It appears nothing will expand a system volume... I have a RAID 5 set and
the C drive for some reason grew.. I thought I had lots of room.. Anyway..
Any sugguestion on how to expand this ?

Can I put in another drive and somehow clone it ?, then restore on a larger
C drive ?

I'd try looking for software that will let you resize Win2k3 NTFS partitions.
Partition Magic might do it. Since you're on hardware RAID 5 it might pose
some problems though.

Make a backup before doing anything. <now if it blows up it's not my fault,
hehehe>

If you want to "resize" your system partition you'll need a tool 'like'
Partition Magic (unfortunately PM will NOT work with a server OS). Try
bootitng (bootitng.com), or do a google search for a "non destructive
repartitioning" tool.
I'm not certain if resizing the system partition will affect Active
Directory or not (my boss seems to think it will be adversely affected but
cannot say exactly why).
Your use of a hardware RAID card may be a blessing as this will present your
array as a single drive to 'most' bootable applications.
Depending on your RAID5 card's capability you may be able to do on-the-fly
capacity expansion, but you'll just end up with unpartitioned space in the
end.
You can also try using folder redirection (mount a folder on another
partition as your "Program Files" for example)

You seem to need a tool that can non-destructively resize an NTFS partition
(2003 uses NTFS version 5.1 I think).
If your using a "dynamic" disk configuration you are screwed (seems that
after 6 years no one bothered to make a tool to work with this...note to
self: do not ever use dynamic disks when possible), you'll need to do it the
long way (wipe and load).
If your backup software permits "bare metal" restorations (restore to
hardware with no OS installed), that's your best bet.

(This may not actually be possible) I've NOT done this with a DC (hosting
Active Directory), but if you have the time to experiment, try this:
-clone your array to a nother disk using ghost2003 or newer (as in clone
your ### GB raid5 array to a ### GB disk)
-wipe your array partitions
-use ghost to restore the data, but enlarge the partition on the
target/destination partition (then restore your other partitions as space
permits)
-test EVERYTHING

[markr999]

What I did was create a second virtual server and mounted the original as a second disk to the new virtual. Tried to extend but that still didn't work (the d-drive was now listed as system and the c-drive as boot in Disk Management MMC), but then I moved the boot.ini, autoexec.bat, config.sys, io.sys, msdod.sys, ntdetect.com and ntldr (basically all the files in the root) to a folder on the new virtuals hard drive and restarted the new virtual. Then Diskpart allowed me to extend (D-drive wasn't listed as a system partition anymore). Once extended, I moved those few system files back to the d-drive and shut down the new virtual, restarted the old one and voila!

haw-haw, first time see such a strange method. admire markr999

[nitincreasy]

hiii i have 320 gb hard drive but in vista there is only 3 partition makes what i want to do help me....

what do you mean nitincreasy? Is there partition lost? check in Disk Management

At present, In Vista, 2008 and Windows 7, it's possible to extend system partition by using Windows Disk management, which has inbuilt the features of extending volume and shrinking volume, and easy to use. But in Win2000/XP/2003 doesn't support these new features.

[deview]

Hi memrary, but have not a contiguous unallocated disk space after the system partition, this will not use windows disk management to extend volume.