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Non-Continuous Space on Hard Drive

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Can Acronis Disk Director expand the C drive and use non-continuous space to expand the C drive. Here is how my server is configured:

C: 5.75 GB
D: 70 GB
50 GB unallocated

I need to expand the C: and use the 50 GB unallocated space. Is this possible?

The OS is Windows Server 2003.

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Hello Kevin!

Welcome to our Forum, it's nice to have you with us. Thank you for taking time to open the thread regarding this questions, I will be glad to address it.

It's surely possible if the unallocated space is on the same physical drive with the C: partition.

One way of doing it is to perform the following actions in Acronis Disk Director: 

  1. Right Click on the D: drive -> Resize partition -> Increase the partition size by using the unallocated space
  2. Right Click on the D: drive -> Resize partition -> Decrease the partition size to the original one (70 Gb), leaving the unallocated space between the C: and D: drive
  3. Right Click on the C: drive -> Resize partition -> Increase the partition size by using the unallocated space
  4. Press Commit Pending operations -> Continue

No changes are made to the drive until you commit pending operations.

Please note that we strongly recommend to: 

  1. Check the drives for consistency before resizing
    Start -> Run -> cmd -> chkdsk /f /r and reboot the machine
    Upon booting Windows will check the hard drive and file system for errors and fix them if any
  2. Backup the drive before resizing
  3. Perform the resizing from the Acronis Disk Director bootable media
    (can be created within the product (Tools -> Acronis Bootable Media Builder) or by downloading the ISO from your account and burning it onto the CD)

You can find more information about the operations in the User and Quick Start Guides.

In case you haven't purchased the Acronis Disk Director 11 for Servers yet, you may test it, but please note that the demo version has certain limitations (generally: it won't allow to commit any operations on the partitions which size is bigger than 100 Mb).

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!