Easy and Safe Solution to Extend SBS 2003 Server Partition

A great number of Windows server users have the demand to extend SBS 2003 server partition. Here's a typical example.

The C: drive on my SBS 2003 server is too small. The RAID array is about 40GB but only 9 GB is given for the C: drive and it has run out of space. So I cannot install service packs, extra software, etc. What method should I use to extend the partition? I would like to preserve the Windows installation and everything on the C: drive if at all possible.

From above, we can find that server users need to extend SBS 2003 server partition in order to optimize the performance of their servers. And the safety of data on the partition to be extended is of vital importance. To answer the question in this case, we'd like to talk about Windows SBS 2003 as well as an easy and safe solution to extend SBS 2003 server partition.

Introduction on Windows SBS 2003

Windows Small Business Server (SBS) is an integrated server suite from Microsoft designed for running network infrastructure of small and medium enterprises. While Microsoft has always championed the small business with its line of Small Business Server (SBS) products, the company's most strident server advances in recent years have been with high-end enterprise products, and not those that serve smaller companies. That's all changing with Windows Small Business Server 2003, a product suite that improves on the simplicity and ease-of-use features from previous SBS versions, and adds a host of new functionality.

Like previous SBS versions, SBS 2003 includes everything a small business needs to get connected to the Internet, establish email, share files and printers, send and receive faxes, and so on. This time around, the product has been polished with better installation and deployment tools, simpler and more elegant management capabilities, and new features suggested by users, such as better backup and restore tools, and security-related functionality.

Common Solution to Partition Windows SBS 2003

While Windows SBS 2003 is widely used among small and medium enterprises, we wonder what solution the IT administrators in these companies use to partition Windows SBS 2003. Is it the Disk Management utility built in Windows Operating System? Well, this is the common way. Basic operations are allowed, such as creating partition, deleting partition, formatting partition, setting active partition, etc. However, if you want to extend SBS 2003 server partition, this utility is far from enough to do the trick. What you need is professional partition software with more advanced functions, such as resizing server partition, to fulfill your needs to extend SBS 2003 server partition or perform other operations to partition Windows SBS 2003.

Better Solution to Extend SBS 2003 Server Partition without Data Loss

By better solution to extend SBS 2003 server partition, we mean this solution not only provides more powerful features, but also is fairly easy and safe to carry out. As discussed above, the solution we talk about here is professional third party partition software. Based upon many users' true experience, professional server partition software named EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition is highly recommended to partition Windows SBS 2003, especially to extend SBS 2003 server partition.

With EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition, you may perform both basic and advanced partition operations on your servers without data loss, including: Resize and Move partitions, Copy Partition, Copy Disk, Create and Delete partitions, Format partitions, Convert partitions, Explore partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions, set active partition, etc. Changes of server partition can be previewed before applying to hard disk.

For better data security, our free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition in a few minutes.

You may wonder how to extend SBS 2003 server partition with this program. Well, this operation can be perfectly implemented through the resizing function.

To extend SBS 2003 server partition, you may follow the steps below:

1. Select the partition to be extended.

2. Click it > Resize / Move.

Then you can extend SBS 2003 server partition without data loss by dragging the handle to the partition size you want on the disk map.

More about EASEUS Partition Master

EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition is single license which can be used on one server computer only and is the best value choice for small and medium businesses. For large enterprises, EASEUS Partition Master Unlimited Edition is available which allows multiple usages on server computers within one company.

Free download EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition to extend SBS 2003 server partition

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