Extending a Boot Volume in Windows 2008 Server

[acdcgreatestbandever]

Even if you delete the 560 partition and make it unallocated space you will still be unable to extend the partition onto the system drive. This is why you always allocate the entire address space of the drive itself to Windows and then shrink the partition to 40GB after installing Windows so you get to benefit of the whole drive and you don't waste space! Dedicate the whole drive first. Allocate space later!

[acdcgreatestbandever]

The important thing to point out is whatever size you dedicate to your system partition becomes fixed to that physical disk. For example lets say you only have one 500GB hard drive and you decide to dedicate 40GB to Server 2008. Later down the road you realize you need more space to install some more programs. Aint gonna happen. Server 2008 sees it not as one 500GB but as two fixed sizes of 40GB and 560GB. You can shrink both or extend both up to their 40 or 560GB but no higher then that.

[criesca]

Thanks!!

I used the commands you used and I was able to expand the drive... thanks a lot! (=