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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2010
At work, we have a server that had a single hard drive. For some reason only 10GB, out of 60GB, was actually allocated. I didn't want to make the unallocated space into another drive, that is annoying. Windows 2003 does not come with the ability to resize the boot/system partition. There are may programs out there that do it, but they are expensive.
I found a reference to a Dell utility that lets you resize the partition. I tried it and it works great (and very fast). The only problem is that you must specify the amount to add, you cannot leave it blank and let it add all of the unallocated space. http://ftp.us.dell.com/App/ExtPart.exe This utility fits a very niche (but common) purpose. A single drive with a partition followed by unallocated space. It doesn't do all the fancy things that commercial partition managers do (like merge, shrink, split, resize, etc).
Posted by Chet at 11:24 AM4 Comments
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