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This is fairly easy in 2008 server (both vanilla and R2).<br />
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Open you disk management (start, type diskmgmt.msc, hit enter).<br />
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Right click on your primary partition, choose extend and follow the prompts.<br />
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This is usually VERY QUICK (ie two minutes or less), unless you have ancient hardware.<br />
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All the best!
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This is fairly easy in 2008 server (both vanilla and R2).

Open you disk management (start, type diskmgmt.msc, hit enter).

Right click on your primary partition, choose extend and follow the prompts.

This is usually VERY QUICK (ie two minutes or less), unless you have ancient hardware.

All the best!

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Depends on the fact if you have any partition next to C: drive.<br />
If C: drive has free unalliocated space block right after C: drive then quite easy.
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Depends on the fact if you have any partition next to C: drive.
If C: drive has free unalliocated space block right after C: drive then quite easy.

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Thank you. I do have another partition next to the primary partition, and then another unallocated section of the HDD.<br />
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What should I do to move the other partition over?<br />
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Thank you very much...
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Thank you. I do have another partition next to the primary partition, and then another unallocated section of the HDD.

What should I do to move the other partition over?

Thank you very much...

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How to I expand the primary partition of my Windows 2008 R2 Std Server? How long should it take?
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How to I expand the primary partition of my Windows 2008 R2 Std Server? How long should it take?

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