15) When the “Move a Folder” Wizard opens Click “Next”
16) Select and Highlight the drive you want to move the folder to and click “Move Folder” when ready
17) Wait while the folder is being moved.
18) Click close when finished.
19) Verify the folder you have chosen was moved then repeat steps 14 thru 18 until all folders have been removed from the secondary partition that was created by default when installing the WHS 2011 Operating System.
20) Once all folders have been moved close the dashboard and proceed to step 21
21) Click your Windows logo “Start Menu”, then go to the right hand side and right click on “computer”, and then click “Manage”.
22) Once your “Manage” screen shows up on the left hand side go to the last option on the bottom called “storage” and click on the arrow on the right hand side.
23) Once the storage options open up go to “Disk Management” go and locate your home server’s system drive (Which will most likely be Disk 0 with a 60GB “C” drive partition and the secondary partition will be labeled drive “D”).
Brilliant, thanks John for the clear guide. Followed your instructions and successfully added 90 GBs to the primary partition of my WHS 2011.
Glad my guide was a help.
Great Guide John, Problem is that my secondary partition is marked as System Active Primary Partition, this seems to be preventing me from deleting or formatting it ?
Great Guide John, Problem is that my secondary partition is marked as System Active Primary Partition, this seems to be preventing me from deleting or formatting it ?
Great Guide John, Problem is that my secondary partition is marked as System Active Primary Partition, this seems to be preventing me from deleting or formatting it ?
Then that maybe a problem since that is the boot partition. you will need to delete the primary partition instead if that is the case if the WHS 2011 files are not on the primary partition. If so then you will need make the primary partition the “Active primary partition” before you go ahead with the procedure in my document.
Great guide, Well written and explained. Thank You.
Thanks Bruno, Glad the article was able to help you.
Thank you very much – great post – just extended my c: drive with no issues. Thanks again.
Glad it worked for you J
Glad the article worked out for, thanks for the feedback!
This is a great article. Following this, I have installed a new sata drive, moved data, extended my system partition to 300GB (don’t know why!), created a new simple volume on disk 0, move all the data back to disk 0, removed disk 1 and all OK, no issues whatsoever!
I am so glad that I have seen this this while the DATAPART was still around 60GB as moving those was not too time consuming and complicated.
I’m glad this article was able to help you out, thanks for the comments!
Excellent article & very informative just what I need to resolve this issue. By using this article I was able to attach a 2 TB drive move my shared folders to the new drive & extend my primary partition. This woks great & you don’t need to spend money on Partition Magic or some other expensive disk application.
thanks
Excellent article & very informative just what I need to resolve this issue. By using this article I was able to attach a 2 TB drive move my shared folders to the new drive & extend my primary partition. This woks great & you don’t need to spend money on Partition Magic or some other expensive disk application.
thanks
Thanks brackmr, I’m glad that the contents of the article were able to help you acomplish your task. As explained in the article this feature has been included in all versions of Windows since Vista’s beta testing days. Partition Magic was a great tool until symantec brought it out and they stopped supporting it.
thank you very very much! I was down to 300kb on my system partition with an further unused 1.7Gb on D, and couldn’t extend C: – reason being that D: although empty, had a paging file set up so couldn’t be deleted. Now sorted and I’m very grateful