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Awebster

As far as i'm aware, server 2003 doesn't allow you to adjust diskspace on the fly for the OS partition. With that said if this is a VM, you could potentially migrate it and expand the disk space at that time.

Aaron

Free up space on the C Drive

Move the system paging file to your D Drive

Move the print spooling to the d drive.

see how much room you have then

Ah ... I saw "2008 R2" and didn't realize that was irrelevant to the question. For 2003, after deleting D:, you can use any partition utility to extend C: (GParted or even a 2008 R2 installation DVD).

Emmanuel Adebayo

Hi,

The first thing that you need to check is what is filling your C: on Windows 2003, I have Windows 2003 with 10GB as my C: (OS) and I'm not experiencing any space issue at all at laest at the moment I still have about 3GB left.

Please use Treezise to see what is taken your space on C:\.

As one of the expert suggested, i would move my page file from C:\ to d:\ just keep a small page file on C: say 512MB just to take dump in case of crash.

Regards

Here is how to move the printer spooler space

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/move-the-printer-spool-folder-in-windows-server-2003/

To move the syspaging space

http://www.waronerrors.com/kb/move-page-file-to-a-different-drive-in-windows-server-2003.aspx

ASKER

I had already moved the page files and printer spooling to the D:

Here is a great program that tells you what is using all your disk space.

http://windirstat.info/

I use this on windows 2003 and windows 2008

ASKER

How do I use dparted. Do i have to burn it to a CD?

Do you mean gparted? Yes, you download the ISO, and burn it to CD (as an image, not the file), boot to it , then extend C: (you must have first deleted the D: drive though so there is Unpartitioned space next to the C: drive).

ASKER

will the free version of gparted work on server 2003, or is it just for win 7/8/vista/xp?

It will work the same on 2003 as for XP. You can also use your installation DVD for 2008. Either way, just make sure you have a backup first.

pgm554

Biggest pain in the butt on server 2003 is that all patches that are installed are backed up in case you have to restore .

It eats up a large amount of disk space after the years.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290402

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/UserTips/Miscellaneous/RemovePatchUninstallFoldersToCleanHardDrive.html

Is this server a DC Domain Controller?

I would first try to see what is taking up all the disk space first before I start trying to expand the drive. Use the http://windirstat.info/ to find what is being used

If this is a DC AD server I would be very causious about expanding the c drive.

If a member server I would rebuild on a larger drive.

Second thing createing a server on only 12 GB is not best practice.

ASKER

Will gparted cause me to loose my data on the C drive? I heard that I might.

Not by design, but anything can happen when you are messing with system partitions, so be prepared with a backup.