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How can I extend a hard drive partition

I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 Server, runing sbs 2003.  The main drive was delivered partitioned (by mistake).  The main drive C was not supposed to be partitioned; however, Dell partitioned it (25 GB to Drive C and 45 GB to Drive E).  Unfortunetly, now drive C is almost full and I was told that I could extend it and use the space allocated to drive E).  There is nothing on Drive E at all.  Both partitions C and E are basic and NTFS.  The Drive is Mirrored (RAID 1)

I was told to use EXTPART so I did the following:
downloaded and extpart to c:\dell\extpart
deleted drive E
from the CMD ran the following   C:\Dell\Extpart  Extpart C: 40000
   when I run this I get an error  "cannot connect to drive c"

I tried deleting the E partition and running the same above script and it produced the same error.

I am at a loss what to do next.  Is there a better program to try (server capeable)?  Am I doing something wrong?  What other options do I have?
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I found out the problem is with WSUS.  
The files SUSDB.MDF   -  2,105,344kb
               TEMPLOG.LDF  - 9,836,800 kb
   take up most of the room.

The entire WSUS directory on the C drive is almost 12GB.  I need easy step by step instruction on how to eithe move all this to another drive with more space or reduce the size of the files.  I tried the

WSUSUTIL deleteunneededrevisions    

in an attempt to make it smaller; however, it had no effect.
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How do I change the approval of previously installed updates to DECLINED?
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The Directory MSSQL$WSUS Is extremly large.
How can i reduce its size or move it off of the C drive to the D drive?

I tried the utility and movecontent.  That seemed to work ok and is now on the D drive, but I dont know how to delete/move the MSSQL$WSUS folder.  step by step instructions would be nice.  I couldnt figure out how to change the aproval of previously installed updates to Declined like everyone said I should.