Moving Windows To A Larger Partition?

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Southy

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I recently installed windows server 2003 on an older computer with a 5gb hard drive. I installed windows on that drive and I added another hard drive to store all the user data. Now, after doing some windows updates and running a few programs of my own in the OS, I have found that 5GB of storage for the OS is insufficient.

I was thinking of replacing it with a 40GB drive but I was wondering if there is some way I could move the entire partition to the new drive without having to reinstall windows all over again?

From previous experience I know there are programs such as "Acronis True Image 10" that will make an image of your partition and then move it to another hard drive. But the only problem with that is, if I do that, it will keep the partition size at 5GB and not 40gb. Is there a way that I can move the windows installation to a new hard drive and make the partition larger without having to reinstall windows?
 
you could try creating an image of the drive using a program like acronis true image (its what i use). then just restore the back up to your new drive
 
Ya, I mentioned that in my original post, but will doing that not keep the partition size the same as it was before? Or can you change the partition size to fit to the full capacity of the new drive?
 
something i have done in the past with no troubles at all when changing hard drives was to get the new hard drive formated and ready, then just go into My Computer and copy the entire contents of the drive over. then swap the drives so the new drive is drive c. it does take a while though.
 
Southy said:
Ya, I mentioned that in my original post, but will doing that not keep the partition size the same as it was before? Or can you change the partition size to fit to the full capacity of the new drive?
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well i can only speak through my own experience with acronis true image, i use it in conjunction with disk director suite also; and it will let you use any partition size and will just restore the files to any partitions you want without changing the size
 
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