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Use Dell Extpart which would be the easiest option, Check out my blog post on this <br />
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<a href="http://aravindsivaraman.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/expand-system-partition-on-windows-2003/" rel="ugc">http://aravindsivaraman.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/expand-system-partition-on-windows-2003/</a>
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Use Dell Extpart which would be the easiest option, Check out my blog post on this

http://aravindsivaraman.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/expand-system-partition-on-windows-2003/ [http://aravindsivaraman.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/expand-system-partition-on-windows-2003/]

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Please also refer to my step by step EE Article here<br />
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How To Increase size of a Boot Volume C: (VMDK) on Windows 2003 VM with No Downtime<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10852-How-To-Increase-size-of-a-Boot-Volume-C-VMDK-on-Windows-2003-VM-with-No-Downtime.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10852-How-To-Increase-size-of-a-Boot-Volume-C-VMDK-on-Windows-2003-VM-with-No-Downtime.html</a><br />
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You just need to replace C: with M: Drive.<br />
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Hope this helps.
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Please also refer to my step by step EE Article here

How To Increase size of a Boot Volume C: (VMDK) on Windows 2003 VM with No Downtime

https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10852-How-To-Increase-size-of-a-Boot-Volume-C-VMDK-on-Windows-2003-VM-with-No-Downtime.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10852-How-To-Increase-size-of-a-Boot-Volume-C-VMDK-on-Windows-2003-VM-with-No-Downtime.html]

You just need to replace C: with M: Drive.

Hope this helps.

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Hi all,<br />
<br />
I have a 2003 server that is running out of space on boot disk which incidentally is M: rather than C:<br />
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&nbsp;I have tried using GParted but it fails. <br />
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As its a VM is there any other ways of achieving this?
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Hi all,

I have a 2003 server that is running out of space on boot disk which incidentally is M: rather than C:

 I have tried using GParted but it fails. 

As its a VM is there any other ways of achieving this?

Extending primary drive of 2003 VM

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

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.