Making a backup of the partition in case things go wrong is never a bad idea. I've also read somewhere that defragmenting the partitions you are about to resize helps avoid issues. At any rate, it should speed things up, as the files would be contiguous on the drive it has to relocate files on. I've done it a few times, and never had any issues.
As far as tools, Redo Backup & Recovery is free, open source, and above all simple to use. You'll still need to defragment with Windows. http://redobackup.org Bill Dougan AVG Technologies USA, Inc. 2105 Northwest Blvd. Newton, NC 28658 office: (866)-833-5727 fax: (828)-459-7341 online: http://www.avg.com/education -----Original Message----- From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Hackney Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 8:46 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Server C: Partition My failsafe method is to use Ghost. With this method, you have a backup image of the partition of things go south... On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Scott Siri <ss...@mendotahs.org> wrote: > Server 2003 is complaining about low space on C: > > It's a Dell server and they only made the C: partition about 20GB. > > Is there an easy and failsafe way to resize C: with some spare space on > other partitions? > > TIA, > Scott > > > *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > -- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Dr. Howard Thurman ****************************** Aaron Keith Hackney aa...@aaronkeithstudios.com Cell 210.325.2196 ****************************** | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
