В некоторых ситуациях необходимо скрыть раздел жесткого диска или SSD диска, на компьютере с операционной системой Windows. После этого, скрытый локальный диск (раздел жесткого диска или другой жесткий диск, если их несколько на компьютере) перестанет отображаться в файловом менеджере Проводник Windows.
Почему бывает нужно спрятать раздел диска (диск) на компьютере? Для большей безопасности и предотвращения доступа к локальному диску, скрытый раздел диска имеет смысл сделать «невидимым» в Проводнике.
Например, следующие причины заставляют пользователя сделать диск скрытым:
- на диске хранятся важные данные личного или конфиденциального характера
- для защиты диска от несанкционированного использования
- для защиты системных разделов, раздела восстановления системы на жестком диске
В окне Проводника «Мой компьютер» («Этот компьютер», «Компьютер») отображаются все диски, подключенные к компьютеру, кроме скрытых разделов (скрытых локальных дисков). Каждому локальному диску соответствует определенная буква алфавита, с помощью букв диски отличают друга от друга. Пользователь может изменить букву диска, выбрав свободную букву алфавита. Для большей наглядности, для локального диска можно присвоить метку тома.
На компьютере скрытые разделы на жестком диске защищены от постороннего вмешательства и внимания. Имейте в виду, что имеется возможность увидеть в Windows скрытые диски через оснастку Управление дисками или с помощью командной строки.
Системные разделы изначально скрыты для большей безопасности от действий неопытных пользователей. На ноутбуках часто имеется дополнительный раздел восстановления — Recovery, который, в большинстве случаев, скрыт по умолчанию.
С помощью раздела Recovery происходит восстановление системы в первоначальное состояние, на момент покупки ноутбука. На некоторых моделях ноутбуков раздел восстановления системы отображается в Проводнике, поэтому его можно скрыть из вида. Все равно, воспользоваться данным разделом для других целей не получится.
Как скрыть диск в Windows? Для решения проблемы мы воспользуемся несколькими инструментами операционной системы Windows:
- Управление дисками
- Командная строка
- Редактор реестра
- Редактор локальной групповой политики
Описанные в инструкции способы одинаково работают в разных версиях операционной системы Windows: в Windows 10, в Windows 8.1, в Windows 8, в Windows 7.
Как скрыть раздел диска в Windows с помощью оснастки Управления дисками
Самый простой способ, как скрыть разделы жесткого диска, — использовать в Windows оснастку Управление дисками.
Для входа в Управление дисками воспользуйтесь одним из двух способов.
- Нажмите одновременно на клавиатуре на клавиши «Win» + «R».
- В окне «Выполнить», в поле «Открыть» введите команду «diskmgmt.msc» (без кавычек), а затем нажмите на кнопку «ОК».
- Кликните правой кнопкой мыши по значку «Этот компьютер» («Мой компьютер»). О том, как вернуть «Мой компьютер» на Рабочий стол читайте здесь.
- В контекстном меню выберите пункт «Управление».
В окне оснастки «Управление дисками» отображены все диски компьютера, в том числе скрытые разделы на жестком диске или на нескольких жестких дисках.
В окне Проводника (смотрите изображение выше в статье) отображается два раздела жесткого диска (Локальный диск «С», Локальный диск «D») и привод дисковода DVD-RW. В окне оснастки Управление дисками видно, что на жестком диске имеется четыре раздела, в том числе, два скрытых системных раздела («Диск 0 раздел 1», «Диск 0 раздел 2»), созданных во время установки Windows на компьютер.
Например, вам потребовалось скрыть раздел жесткого диска «Локальный диск (D:)». Для этого, сделайте следующее:
В окне «Изменение буквы диска или путей для X: (Локальный диск)» нажмите на кнопку «Удалить».
В окне с предупреждением нажмите на кнопку «ОК». Если появится еще одно предупреждение, нажмите на кнопку «Да».
Теперь можно посмотреть в Проводнике на результат выполненной операции.
Как сделать скрытый диск открытым в Управлении дисками
Для того, чтобы открыть скрытый диск в расположении «Мой компьютер» Проводника, выполните следующие действия:
- Перейдите в Управление дисками, выберите диск, который нужно сделать открытым.
- В окне для изменения буквы диска нажмите на кнопку «Добавить».
В окне «Добавление буквы диска или пути» выберите подходящую букву, а затем нажмите на кнопку «ОК». Операционная система по умолчанию предлагает первую свободную букву английского алфавита, в нашем случае «D».
После этого, скрытый раздел жесткого диска снова будет виден в Проводнике Windows.
Как скрыть диск в Windows с помощью командной строки
Откройте командную строку от имени администратора любым удобным способом. Далее в окне интерпретатора командной строки выполните последовательно следующие команды (после ввода отдельной команды, нажмите на клавишу «Enter»):
diskpart list volume
После этого, в окне командной строки отобразятся все диски данного компьютера.
Введите команду для выбора номер раздела (смотрите номер тома в командной строке, напротив нужного диска). Для того, чтобы выбрать нужный диск, ориентируйтесь по размеру локального диска.
select volume X (где X — номер тома)
Затем введите команду для скрытия выбранного тома. В команде, после символа «равно», вставьте букву скрываемого раздела (у меня выбрана буква «D»).
Войдите в Проводник, убедитесь, что скрытого раздела жесткого диска там больше нет.
Как вернуть скрытый раздел жесткого диска в Проводник с помощью командной строки
Чтобы вернуть все обратно при помощи командной строки, введите последовательно следующие команды (в команде «select volume» вставьте номер тома скрытого раздела на вашем компьютере, а в команде «assign letter» вставьте букву, которая соответствует скрытому разделу диска на вашем компьютере):
diskpart list volume select volume 2 assign letter=D
После выполнения команд, закройте окно интерпретатора командной строки.
Теперь можно открыть Проводник, чтобы посмотреть на результат своих действий: скрытый локальный диск снова отображается.
Как скрыть локальный диск в Редакторе реестра
Раздел жесткого диска можно сделать скрытым при помощи изменений в реестре операционной системы Windows.
Для запуска Редактор реестра нажмите на клавиатуре «Win» + «R», введите команду «regedit» (без кавычек).
В окне Редактора реестра пройдите по пути:
Кликните правой кнопкой мыши по свободному месту в окне Редактора реестра, в контекстном меню выберите «Создать», далее «Параметр DWORD (32 бита)». Дайте имя параметру: «NoDrives» (без кавычек).
Например, я хочу скрыть Локальный диск «D:», в таблице букве «D» соответствует цифра «8», поэтому я должен ввести данную цифру в поле «Значение».
Нажмите на кнопку «ОК», закройте Редактор реестра, а затем перезагрузите компьютер.
Для отмены изменений, удалите из реестра, созданный ранее параметр «NoDrives», расположенный по пути:
Скрываем раздел диска с помощью Редактора локальной групповой политики
В версиях операционной системы Windows Pro и Windows Enterprise (Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7), и производных редакциях от этих версий, имеется Редактор локальной групповой политики, с помощью которого можно скрыть локальный диск на компьютере.
Произведите следующие настройки в Редакторе локальной групповой политики:
В открывшемся окне активируйте настройку «Включено», в поле «Параметры:» выберите одну из указанных комбинаций. На этом примере, я выбрал настройку: «Ограничить доступ к диску D».
Для возвращения скрытого диска в Проводник, в Редакторе локальной групповой политики, в окне «Скрыть выбранные диски из окна “Мой компьютер”» включите настройку «Не задано», а затем нажмите на кнопку «ОК».
Заключение
В операционной системе Windows пользователь может скрыть раздел жесткого диска (локальный диск), который не будет отображаться в окне Проводника «Мой компьютер». Скрыть диск можно с помощью средств системы: Управление дисками, Редактора реестра, Редактора локальной групповой политики, или командной строки.
- Type DISKPART
- Type LIST VOLUME
- Type SELECT VOLUME NUMBER “Z” (where “Z” is your EFI drive number)
- Type REMOVE LETTER=Z (where Z is your drive number)
Many of you thought this would do the trick, but found the drive letter only temporarily disappears from Windows Explorer. It returns after restarting.
So, to fully remove the drive letter before restarting your computer you’ll need to remove a registry key:
If the EFI partition drive letter is listed in the right hand pane (for example DosDevicesZ:), right click and delete the value.
For added protection right click the registry value (i.e. “DosDevicesZ:”, where Z is your EFI drive letter) and export the key; save to your desktop. Delete this backup once you’ve restarted and confirmed that the registry change correctly modified your settings.
If you accidentally deleted the wrong key, you can restore (merge) the previously saved backup and try again.
HTH those who’ve been trying to solve this problem.
Goodness sake, be careful!
It sounds like not “all is lost”, but it also sounds like you only vaguely know what you’re doing, and are proceeding. That is a recipe for “all is lost”.
To elaborate, it sounds like you’re able to access the vast majority of your data, but you’re having troubles booting, which is a much simpler fix overall. But if you’re not careful, you could easily lose the vast majority of your data.
First, it will help to make sure you know some basic terminology. The MBR is the first sector on a disk. The “MBR”-style of laying out partitions can handle drives up to 2 TB, and it looks like you’re dealing with a drive smaller than that, so you might indeed be using an MBR and not the newer GPT format.
Those 64 bytes of information can be pretty important. If you get some of these details wrong, operating systems may not properly understand some details about your partitions. And since operating systems typically write to disks, such misunderstandings can result in writing incorrect details that damage your ability to access data. So, being careful here is pretty critical.
A “partition” is basically a set of boundaries. You specify the starting sector, and either the ending sector or the size. Either way, you get a starting boundary and an ending boundary.
A “volume”, sometimes called a “filesystem”, stores your actual data. A volume needs to exist within the boundaries of the partition.
Now what typically happens is that an operating system looks at a partition, and assumes that a volume starts right at the beginning of the partition. Also, the partition specifies a “type”, which is meant to be a strong clue about which style of volume is being used.
If the operating system can’t find the volume, there are multiple possible reasons. One is that the partition’s starting sector is wrong, and so the start of the volume isn’t being properly found. Another possibility is that an improper “type” is being used, so the operating system doesn’t know how to interact with the volume it is using. Another possibility is that the volume is damaged, and so the operating system is unable to find a volume that matches some details that the operating system checks for.
Since your System volume isn’t even showing up, to me that suggests that it is damaged. You might need to restore that, providing a fresh copy of the boot files. This might not be something as easy to fix as using BCDEdit, which basically just tries to make slight changes. Your best bet may be to simply re-install the operating system (even to the same drive), which should accomplish a couple of things: placing a fresh (and not-updated) copy of Windows on your hard drive (which may be able to just overwrite, possibly even in-place, your current installation) and adjusting the ability to boot.
There might be an easier/simple way, but I recommend preparing for the possibility that there isn’t.
However, I strongly advise you to get a full backup first. If at all possible, I even advise you to not just back up a few files that seem important, but to get a “forensic”/”bit-for-bit” image of the entire drive (onto another drive that is at least as large). That way, you can be comfortable that you’re not going to lose your important data while you try to make any changes, and that you can revert in case any attempts go awry.
Having looked over your conversation with GuitarPicker, I am not as worried about your DVD drive showing up as it does. I think that just happens as a result of your boot partition not being detected; if your boot partition were detected, the DVD would automatically be assigned a higher drive letter without a problem. Using SET ID may indeed be helpful (and to find an existing ID, also known as a type, you can SELECT a partition and then say DETAIL PARTITION). But you did say, “I tried again to delete the boot partition with diskpart and recreated it”. The problem here is that when you deleted the boot partition, you effectively told the computer to stop keeping track of any data on that partition, such as the critical data used to boot. Then, even if you did create a new partition and volume that are classified as the correct “type” for a boot partition, you still lack that bit of data that is used to boot the operating system. The typical way of getting that data onto a boot drive is called “installing the operating system”.
While there might be some way to just transplant such boot data from another computer, some of the data may need to be placed in specific sectors on the volume (a picky detail which is not usually a concern except when dealing with boot files), and so this might or might not be quite as easy as just trying to do a basic copy. In other words, such a transplant has potential for troubles that make this approach not recommended for novices.
Note: I did read your comment about going from Win7 to Win10. You might be okay to just install Win10 over your existing drive, and if you’re lucky then maybe your existing licensing might even get preserved, in which case you might not even need to fuss with going through the Windows 7 installation. But, for goodness sake, to make sure you don’t introduce yourself to any worlds of new hurt, don’t even think of trying that before making your backup. I know that such a task may be an annoyance (especially of money needs to be spent), but I’m re-stressing that issue because sometimes backups are even more worthwhile to make than average, and this is one of those times. So, I strongly advise you to do the wise thing, which is to make that investment in time/energy/supplies before any further mucking.
Introduction
Sometimes a disk has more space available to an operating system (OS) than what it actually uses. You can extend the size of the space allocated to the OS.
Requirements
Access to the Windows command line, and optionally a file editor if a scripting method is chosen
Procedure
This will start the diskpart utility that is native to the Windows environment. Once diskpart is running, you can view the current disk information with:
This will return something such as:
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
——– ————- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 136 GB 87 GB
Disk 1 Online 279 GB 250 GB
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 902 GB
Disk 3 Online 136 GB 107 GB
Disk 4 Online 136 GB 107 GB
Disk 5 Online 93 GB 0 B
Disk 6 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 7 No Media 0 B 0 B
What you need to determine, is which volume has the OS on it, which can be identified by the volume’s drive letter.
You can list volume information using detail disk or by:
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
———- — ———– —– ———- ——- ——— ——–
Volume 0 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 48 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 2 E New Volume NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy
Volume 3 F New Volume NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy
Volume 4 G New Volume NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy
Volume 5 H New Volume NTFS Partition 29 GB Healthy
Volume 6 I Volume Name NTFS Partition 93 GB Healthy
Volume 7 J Removable 0 B No Media
Volume 8 L Removable 0 B No Media
You can then select the desired volume:
Volume 1 is the selected volume.
You can see from the help extend command that extending disk size is done in terms of megabytes (MB):
Extends the volume or partition with focus, and its file system, into free
(unallocated) space on a disk.
SIZE= Specifies the amount of space in megabytes (MB) to add to the
current volume or partition. If no size is given, all of the
contiguous free space that is available on the disk is used.
DISK= Specifies the disk on which the volume or partition is
extended. If no disk is specified, the volume or partition is
extended on the current disk.
Then you can extend the disk by the desired amount of space:
DiskPart successfully extended the volume.
More Information
Microsoft included the free disk management tool in Windows starting in 1999 with the Windows 2000 operating system. Diskpart scans for newly added disks, but it can also create, delete and resize drive partitions, and assign or reassign drive letters. Diskpart also works with drive volumes, virtual hard disks and removable media such as USB flash drives.
Microsoft continues to develop diskpart, and the latest version of the utility features 38 commands. To use diskpart, you list the objects, such as disks or partitions, and then select the object to change it.
The diskpart Windows utility features 38 commands for disk-related editing jobs.
Using diskpart requires understanding data storage terminology
Diskpart use requires a basic understanding of Windows disk terminology. A basic disk is a storage device, such as hard drives, solid-state drives and USB flash drives, which you format with a Windows file system.
A basic disk can hold one or several partitions. A partition is a logical structure confined to a single disk.
A volume is a construct of the operating system that consists of one or more partitions that can span one or more disks.
You should be careful when using diskpart because there is no undo function if you select the wrong object. Also, once a command is entered, even a destructive one, diskpart does not ask for confirmation before it runs. For example, if you perform an errant diskpart delete partition operation, you must use another utility, such as third-party disk management program, to recover the data or use a backup image to restore the drive.
- Do not use diskpart until you back up the disk you plan to modify.
- Check with your hardware vendor before using diskpart.
Creating a partition using diskpart
Using diskpart to partition your disk can help increase the I/O performance of hard disks newly added to a RAID array. The documentation for many server applications, such as Exchange Server, recommends using diskpart to create the primary or extended partitions. You can use a primary partition as the system partition; you can only use an extended partition for additional logical drive assignments.
The diskpart create command makes disk partitions, volumes on a single disk or multiple disks, and virtual hard disks.
To create a partition:
- At a command prompt, type: diskpart
- At the DISKPART prompt, type list disk (Note the drive number you wish to manipulate.)
- At the DISKPART prompt, type assign letter=D (Choose an unused drive letter.)
- At the DISKPART prompt, type exit
- From the command prompt, use the format command, or the Disk Management utility in Windows or any disk format tool to format the drive. You would typically use the NTFS file system during the initialization process.
Use the list command to find the disk to edit and then select it to make the partition change.
Extending a partition using diskpart
When it comes to adding space to a partition or volume, this method is superior to configuring two disks. Dynamic disk extensions only concatenate the newly added space, meaning they merely add the disk space to the end of the original partition without restriping the data.
Concatenation isolates performance within each partition and does not offer fault tolerance when the partition is configured in a RAID array. Diskpart restripes your existing data. This is beneficial when the partition is set up in a RAID array, because the existing partition data spreads across all the drives in the array, rather than just adding new space to the end, like the Disk Management utility.
To extend a partition:
- Verify that contiguous free space is available on the same drive and that free space is next to the partition you intend to extend with no partitions in between. Be sure you have a full backup before trying this method.
- At a command prompt, type diskpart
- At the DISKPART prompt, type extend (If you do not set a size, then diskpart will use all available space on the disk.)
- At the DISKPART prompt, type exit
List the volumes then select one to extend with diskpart.
Deleting a partition using diskpart
The delete command in diskpart removes dynamic disks, partitions, volumes and shadow copies. When you have multiple volumes on the disk or an unwanted partition, such as a recovery partition, this command will remove them and return them to unallocated space.
To delete a partition:
- At a command prompt, type diskpart
- At the DISKPART prompt, type list partition
- At the DISKPART prompt, type delete partition
- At the DISKPART prompt, type exit
Use diskpart to select the partition on the disk then use the delete command to remove it.
Creating a volume using diskpart
When using dynamic disks in Windows, you can create four volume types with diskpart: volume mirror, RAID-5 volume, simple volume and striped volume.
To create a simple volume:
- At a command prompt, type diskpart
- At the DISKPART prompt, type exit
Cleaning a disk using diskpart
When you have an entire disk to wipe clean, you can use the diskpart clean command to convert all the stored data into unallocated space. This operation deletes all data on the disk by writing zeros on each disk sector. Diskpart also removes all partition and volume information from the selected drive.
To clean a disk:
- At a command prompt, type diskpart
- At the DISKPART prompt, type clean all
- At the DISKPART prompt, type exit
Other ways to use diskpart
For an in-depth tutorial on how to use diskpart for preparing a Windows 10 system for deployment, this blog post on the SearchEnterpriseDesktop site provides detailed instructions to use diskpart with a script.
If you’re running low on space in a partition on your Windows computer, you may be considering using a third-party tool to extend it. However, you don’t have to use a third-party tool, whether paid or free. You can use the built-in Diskpart tool to extend any volume or partition.
For instance, I save all my virtual machines in a dedicated partition. Recently, I had to extend it because it is getting low on disk space. So, I used the Windows Diskpart tool to extend the partition to increase the available space.
In this article, I’ll walk you through extending a partition with Diskpart.
Table of contents:
Requirements & A Few Things You Should Know
- Backup data in the drive you are trying to extend. That way, you will have access to the data even when something goes wrong.
- You cannot extend the boot partition, a.k.a, Windows installation drive using the diskpart method shown below.
- Diskpart can only extend partitions with the NTFS file system. So, check the file system before proceeding. If needed, you can convert FAT32 to NTFS with just a couple of clicks.
- The drive you are trying to extend should have an unallocated space right next to it. If not, you cannot extend the partition.
Being a built-in command-line tool, you can use Diskpart from the Command Prompt or terminal. Here are the steps:
- Right-click on the start icon.
- Type “diskpart” and press Enter.
- Type “list disk” and press Enter.
- Take note of the disk number of the disk with the volume you want to extend.
- Run the “select disk number” command while replacing “number” with the actual disk number.
- Run the “list partition” command.
- Take note of the volume number you want to extend.
- Run the “select partition number” command while replacing “number” with the actual volume number.
- Run the “extend size=SizeInMB” while replacing the actual size in MB.
- Diskpart will start to extend the partition; wait till is completed.
- Once done, you will see the “Diskpart successfully extended the volume” success message.
- Type “exit” and press Enter.
- Close the Terminal window.
- With that, you extended the partition with Diskpart.
Steps with more details:
In the elevated command window opens, run the below command to initialize the Diskpart tool.
Now, execute the below command to list all disks in your system. If your system only has one disk, you will see only one entry in the response.
After selecting the disk, use the below command to list all the partitions in that specific disk drive.
Note: As I said above, this command will only work if there is sufficient unallocated space right next to the partition you are extending.
Depending on the partition size, it will take some time to complete the process. Once done, you will see the “Diskpart successfully extended the volume” message.
Once you see this message, you are done, and the partition is extended. Use the exit command to get out of the Diskpart tool. Next, close the Terminal/Command Prompt, and you are good to go.
What is Diskpart?
Diskpart is a built-in command-line tool that lets you create partitions, delete partitions, extend partitions, change drive letters, hide partitions, format disks, and more in Windows.
If you are wondering, almost all disk management programs, including the built-in Windows disk manager, use Diskpart in the background to extend volumes in Windows.
Quickly Diskpart Extend Volume —Wrapping UP
Though the entire process is easy, always remember to be cautious when using Diskpart, as it’s a powerful tool that can cause irreversible damage if not used correctly. With that said, you can now confidently manage your partitions like a pro.
I hope this simple and easy guide helped you extend the volume using Diskpart on Windows.
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- Download the DiskPart utility from the Microsoft website, then install it on your computer.
- Go to Start, Run, then type
cmdto start a command-line session.
- Type
diskpart
to start a DiskPart session. - Type
list volumeto list the current volumes. The list will look like
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
———- — ——————- —– ——– ——-
Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 10 GB Healthy System
Volume 1 D Data NTFS Partition 9 GB Healthy Pagefile - Type
exit
when you’re finished.
You can extend only volumes created on a dynamic disk, not volumes created on a basic disk that you’ve upgraded. If you try to extend volumes created on a basic disk, you’ll receive the error “DiskPart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.”
Summary
This tutorial is going to introduce how to extend volume with diskpart cmd and partition software to extend disk partition on Windows Server when Diskpart command cannot extend partition.
: Run CMD and type diskpart to enter
: Type “list disk” to show all disks under diskpart
: Type “list partition”
: Type “select partition *” to get the target partition selected
: Type “extend size=*”, for example you may type “extend size=10240” to extend a 10GB if there were 10GB free space on the disk.
This above image shows to extend less than 1GB disk space.
Diskpart.exe Command Extend Partition Failures
Although extending a C drive with DiskPart looks easy, there are actually some limitations to using DiskPart to extend a C drive.
✬ Right side adjacent unallocated space required. The extend command is valid only if there is adjacent unallocated space to the right of the partition to be extended.
✬ NTFS required. NTFS partition extensions are supported. That is, FAT32 or exFAT partitions cannot be extended using diskpart.exe.
Note: Unallocated space will not show up in the command window, so it’s unknown if there is unallocated space available for expansion in the command window.
Partition Resizer for Windows Server to Extend Volume
Disk partition runs out of space on Windows Server can be a headache. Before you reformat the
partition or change a new larger hard drive, you can take a try with professional partition
software.
IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server is professional partition software for Windows
Servers, which can extend disk partition, shrink disk partition and move disk partition.
Therefore, when disk partition runs on low disk space on Windows Server, you can rely on
this partition software to resize partition server 2008 diskpart. This partition software is able to resize
NTFS and FAT disk partition without data loss.
Download IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server for all Windows Server OS.
Step-by-step Guide to Extend Disk Partition with Partition Resizer
How to redistribute disk space in Windows Server without losing data?
Step 1:
Download, install and run IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server on your PC.
Right click a
partition that has large free disk space and select “Resize/Move” option.
Step 2:
Move border of this partition when your mouse shows double arrows to shrink the selected partition. Then, you can produce some free space
which will be shown as unallocated volume.
Step 3:
You need to move the unallocated space close to the partition you want to extend. Then, you
need to right click the partition you want to extend and choose “Resize/Move”
option.
Right click c drive to get started with extending c
Steps to resize your disk partition
Step 4:
Move the arrows to extend the partition and then click “Apply” button.
Video – How to resize partition in Windows Server with Partition Resizer (safe partition software)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Uref-CJTo8%3Frel%3D0
What is Diskpart Extend Partition
On Windows Server, you can extend disk partition
with help of Diskpart command. Diskpart command is a little difficult for somebody, especially those who are not familiar with computer knowledge. Therefore, if you are not a computer specialist, you had better be careful when you want to run Diskpart command to extend disk partition on Windows Server. Well, without relying on Diskpart command, is there any other way to extend disk partition on Windows Server? The answer is yes. You can rely on partition software, which is more convenient and easier to handle.
Partition Software Download When Diskpart Cannot Extend Partition
Diskpart command may fail to extend disk partition sometimes. In this case, professional partition software is a good choice to get the disk partition extended. IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server can extend disk volume only with a few mouse clicks and drags. If you use IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server, you are able to extend system partition without rebooting computer and increase size of partition without reformatting the hard disk. This partition software works for all Windows Servers including Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, SBS 2003, SBS 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016/2019/2022 etc.
Why IM-Magic Partition Software
1. IM-Magic Partition Resize Server is safe to use
IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server is risk-free, so it is safe to use. Besides, this partition software enables you to resize disk partition on Windows Server without rebooting computer or reinstalling system. It can ensure data and OS safety even from a sudden loss of power during the resizing.
Also read: how to exend volume without losing data; how to create unallocated space in server
