Change system partition windows server 2008

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I don't think it's marked as "System Reserved. If I remove the D: drives from the machine, it doesn't boot. The location of the files on the hard drive plays a big part here because these files are marked as unmovable.

Disk Management is unable to relocate them. If these files are located in the middle of the total amount of free space on the disk, then only the free space on the other side usually its right side can be used to create a new partition.

It works great. Maybe you can have a try. Johnson Data Management is an IT service provider. Thanks guys. Well I did it over the weekend and it ran flawlessly, but it was not without concern. After clicking on shrink there was a wait of 1. Then after selecting the amount of shrink space required there was another 2.

There was no message on the screen during this shrink phase, only the hour glass for 2. Very disconcerting. Looking at Task Manager shows that it is actually running defrag during this sequence.

So my advise, start early in the weekend so you can get some sleep. You'd better fix this problem as fast as possible, the eariler and the better, as no one wants to see the System crash, in that case, you have to start over and keep the Server under downtime for a long time. It is much better if there is a way to change Windows partition size without data loss. Now there is an awards-winning Server partition manager that can help you change Windows partition size without deleting or formatting partitions.

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