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NTFS Partitioning Tool
Posted: 7:30 am June 19th, 2006	Post a comment Linux

Need to repartition your NTFS volume – resize, delete, move, format or delete for free? Even on a server? Check out Gparted.

Not a day goes by without someone that just got their shiny new Dell server with a 160 GB hard drive… and a 12 GB C:\ partition. Resizing the NTFS partition then becomes an interesting task of finding a piece of software that is still up to date yet certified for resizing volumes on a server. The process becomes so ambiguous that most just blow up the whole machine for a repartition and reinstall. It’s a frustrating search with many wrong turns and steep fees but there is this great tool that you can use, for free, to do it yourself. Yes, it works on servers. Yes, it works on domain controllers. Yes, it works on NTFS. Using Linux to fix Windows, what a concept. Check out this review of Gparted and burn yourself an iso for free.

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Baltimoremick.com » Working Hard So You Don’t Have To | June 20th, 2006 at 11:30 am

[...] If you have ever had to resize a C: drive that was too small on your Windows XP, your only alternative would be to buy PartitionMagic.Â If you have ever had this problem on Windows Server 2003, your only alternative would be to backup the server, repartition the storage, and rebuild and restore the server.Â Courtesy of Vlad Mazek comes Gparted.Â Now you can use an open source tool to resize your NTFS partitions on your servers without having to rebuild or buy some expensive piece of software. [...]

Dale Unroe | August 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 am

While I wish I had a 160GB, my undersized system partition on a 73GB SCSI RAID mirror needed room for SP1 and so I researched the solution landscape last February. If you value MS support throughout the resizing process, there is a method that might be worth considering that you can implement in a day with no costs and using the existing MS software. I documented my success with this and blogged it here: http://unroes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D469142A1C1AE51B!167.entry

k34jfa | March 14th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

Hello Vlad,

thank you for this tip.. i will try it for sure!!

I almost requested a order for acronis Disk Director.. which is a very good tool but very $$.

Thanks again..

Historical Post Series - Software for Partition Resizing on SBS 2003 « Taking it Upwards with SBS - Dale aka SBSisyphus’ Weblog | March 2nd, 2009 at 11:37 am

[...] GParted – Vlad Mazek wrote a very good piece on using GParted [...]

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