Is System C: drive of your Windows 2008 Server R2 running out of space? Are you looking for Partition Magic for Windows 2008 Server R2 to fast extend the system partition without data loss? This article guides you to gain it.

Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2, a Server operating system produced by Microsoft, was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009 and launched on October 22, 2009. Windows Server Team blog told that the retail availability was September 14, 2009. It is built on the base of Windows NT 6.1, the same core operating system used with the end-user oriented Windows 7. It is the first 64-bit only operating system released from Microsoft. Windows Server 2008 R2 is upgraded from Windows Server 2008.



Low disk space occurs on Windows Server 2008 R2
At present, even users' hard drives volume has been greatly increased owing to technological development, but it still can't meet the requirement of application/Windows update installs, browser caches, and temporary files. At the same time, they may slow down your system.
Although Windows Server 2008 R2 is excellent, the system C: drive also runs out of space after running it for a period.
When you find system run much slower and you cannot install any Windows updates and other applications, there is low free space phenomenon. So you need to solve this problem before system crash.

Can Partition Magic be used on Windows 2008 Server R2?
As to the partition software used to extend, resize partitions, Partition Magic may be recalled first, so you may search server partition magic for Windows 2008 Server R2.
Certainly, Partition Magic is regarded as the most popular partition software, but it only works on Windows PC. At the same time, the Partition Magic Server edition - Server Magic, has not been upgraded since it was acquired by Symantec. Thus, Server Magic is unable to extend, resize server partition under Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, and any other advanced Operating Systems.

The best Partition Magic Alternative for Windows 2008 Server R2
MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition supports more operating systems than Server Magic does. Meanwhile, it deals with all server disk management for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server and Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. It performs basic and advanced hard disk partition maintenance, including: resize partition, merge partition and so on.
Due to its advantages, such as: unique Enhanced data protection technology, easy to use, full featured and so on, this server partition magic is highly reputed as the best Partition Magic Server Edition representative for Windows Server.
With MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition, if you want get some unallocated space, just dragging partition handle or border on the handle to first shrink an existing data partition and then you can extend the system C drive without deleting or formatting partitions and files.

Tutorial of resizing partition and extending partition with server partition magic
Launch Partition Wizard Server to see the list of all disks and partitions that are connected to your Server.



Right click the data partition adjacent to system partition to see the pop-up windows and then select "Move/Resize" on it. Next, drag the left border of partition handle rightwards to shrink it.



Some Unallocated space will be displayed behind the system partition.



Right-click and select "Move/Resize" on the pop-up window. Then drag the right border of partition handle rightwards to include the unallocated space.



Here, click "Apply" to execute pending operations.



With MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition for Windows 2008 Server, you can also perform following operations, such as: Convert dynamic disk to basic, Hide Partition, Create Partition, Format Partition, Set Active, Set Primary/Logical partition, Change cluster size without formatting and so on.

To learn full features of MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition, users can down this Partition Magic Server Edition at www.partitionwizard.com to check.