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Thanks LEEW, that really helped me.
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Nice write up leew. &nbsp;if i seen that years ago it would have saved me alot of time.<br />
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Recently I had this problem alot as Dell loves to make servers with small system drives.<br />
My preference is (if you have room on another partition on the same drive)<br />
Download gparted live <br />
burn it to a cd. <br />
backup your system.<br />
&nbsp;Boot off the cd and resize yoru partitions. &nbsp;Its all free. &nbsp;works great. Im 8 for 8 so far (zero failures) &nbsp;but backup should still be done!<br />
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<a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php" rel="ugc">http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php</a>&nbsp;<br />

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Nice write up leew.  if i seen that years ago it would have saved me alot of time.
 
Recently I had this problem alot as Dell loves to make servers with small system drives.
My preference is (if you have room on another partition on the same drive)
Download gparted live
burn it to a cd.
backup your system.
 Boot off the cd and resize yoru partitions.  Its all free.  works great. Im 8 for 8 so far (zero failures)  but backup should still be done!
 
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php [http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php] 


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I was thinking about doing that, but I was curious about files that could be deleted without crashing the system.
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I was thinking about doing that, but I was curious about files that could be deleted without crashing the system.

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I need to free up space (c:\ ) on one of my servers. The server has Windows 2003 SP1 and I want to delete any files that won't endanger the os from crashing. 
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I need to free up space (c:\ ) on one of my servers. The server has Windows 2003 SP1 and I want to delete any files that won't endanger the os from crashing. 

What files are safe to delete in Windows 2003 Sp1?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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