Shrink Partition Windows Server 2003 / Shrink Windows 2003 Partition

If you want to shrink a partition under Windows Server 2003, you can use Server partition tool that can squeeze a large disk partition into small volume without losing files from the partition.

Why Do You Need to Shrink a Partition?

As a computer user, you may have ever encountered such situation when you start your computer, Windows may inform that you are running out of disk space on local disk C, to free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here…In this case, you will need to extend the C drive to solve the low disk space problem. However, if you want to extend the C drive, you need to shrink a free disk space from other partition which has lots of free space.

Apart from low disk space problem, you may need to decrease other partition when it cannot used to store more data. For example, if you often like to save data to E drive and it will be to its maximum capacity after a long time. In this case, if the other partitions still have lots of free space, you will need to shrink free disk space from other partitions to extend the E drive so that you can store more data to the drive.

Shrink Partition Windows Server 2003

To shrink partition under Windows Server 2003, you can use Server partition tool that can help you shrink any partition. It is available for Server 2003 SBS shrinking. When you want to shrink a partition, you don’t need to delete or modify any data from the original partition. Besides, you don’t need to worry that the data will be corrupted or the disk partition will be destroyed after shrinking. Server partition tool can provide 100% safe method too shrink the partition effectively and simply.

How to Shrink Windows 2003 Partition?

Step1. Right click the partition that you want to shrink, and select "Resize/Move" option.

Step2. When you see the double arrows, move the arrow rightward to shrink the free space.

Step3. The free disk space will be shown as unallocated volume.

Tip: If you want to add it to another partition to get expanded, you can move the unallocated volume close to the partition you want to extend. You can also assign a drive letter to the unallocated volume and format it under "Disk Management" to create a new disk partition.

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