Recently we needed to extend the partition on a Windows 2003 server for an It support customer in Skipton

Follow these steps to extend a partition on your Windows 2003 Server:

1. At a command prompt, type diskpart
2. Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the computer
3. Type Select volume # where volume number is number of the volume that you want to extend.
4. Type extend to extend the partition the remaining free space

This method works great if the storage is local or stored on SAN like an HP EVA.

 

If extending data partition is successful in disk management but it does not show up in Windows Explorer

Then Use FSEXTEND to resolve the issue….

Download FSEXTEND

Copy it in a Folder

Open CMD Navigate to that folder

Run FSEXTEND driverletter: and press enter

(Make sure that you are on a different partition than the one you are trying to extend)

 

You can extend a Windows 2003 server system using a Vista workstation.

Open system manager on the Vista workstation. Connect remotely to the windows 2003 server with system manager.

Open disk manger and right click on the partition you wish to extend and click extend.

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