Nowadays, no matter how big your drive is, application installs, browser caches, and temporary files can eat up your free space at an amazing speed and clutter your system.

Low disk space on C drive
Windows XP users and Windows Server 2003 users may encounter low disk space warning as "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."



When this warning pops up, it means that you will suffer a big risk of data loss and low work efficiency with the computer. And the space for system is efficient, thus the computer will not work efficiently and stably. Besides, defragment and more installations are not available.
No one wants to see the system crash, to solve this problem, you have to start over and keep the Server under downtime for a long time.

Extend C drive on Windows Server 2003 without data loss
It's useless to release disk space with Windows Cleanup utility, because only a little space is gained. And trying to delete unfamiliar Windows files or other files is risky.
So the best way to solve this problem is to extend C drive on Windows Server 2003 particularly with partition magic server to optimize disk space usage. That is to say, shrink an existing data partition and get some unallocated space to extend the system C drive. The most critical thing of doing so is to ensure the safety and the stability of the computer to make your valuable data in the lowest risk of data loss.

Extend C drive with Partition Magic Server software
There is some third party Server partition software on the market, and MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition is considered as the best Partition Magic server alternative, with which you can resize partition, merge partition, extend partitions under Windows Server 2003 without losing data.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition is a prominent partition magic server for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008. It allows user to perform basic operations and advanced operations, such as: Resize partition, Merge partitions, Extend partition, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Copy partition, Recover partition, and others. Users don't need to worry about the data safety.

Extend C drive in Windows Server 2003
It is extremely easy to resize, extend partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition, you just need to drag and move mouse on the disk map, and you don't need to delete or format partitions.
Steps to extend Server 2003 C drive:
Users should launch the partition magic server MiniTool Partition Wizards Server Edition first. All partitions and disks connected to Server will be displayed as well as free spaces and used space, and other partition properties.



On this interface, right click partition and select "Move/Resize" on popup. Next, shrink it by dragging partition handle rightwards.



Behind the system partition, unallocated space exists.



On this interface, right click partition and select "Move/Resize" on popup. Then drag the left border of partition handle rightwards to include the unallocated space.



Click "OK" to extend system partition, and then click "Apply" to complete the operations.



Just within several steps, you easily extend C drive on Windows Server 2003 without data loss. The partition magic server, MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition, is really an excellent partition management assistant.