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Is This Supposed To Take This Long Before Reboot?

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Hello,
I have a copy of Disk Director 11 Advanced, trying to resize two partitions, taking the space from D: and giving it to C: on Windows Server 2003. This is the first computer I tried this on after reading good reviews this product, and having only experience with Parition Magic in the past Windows wise. So, I set it to go, it said it's going to have to reboot, I said ok, and now I have a screen shot attached it's been 2 1/2 hours and the progress still says "Running 0%" and it doesn't seem to be doing anything looking at the Task Manager.
Is it waiting for me to reboot or is it actually doing something? When I click on "View details" in the right-hand pane, in the settings tabs it says "Operation 1 of 3 Obtaining information on the machine..."
Has this failed on me or what? I know moving a partition takes a while, but no progress indicator in the eleventh version of a program? Come on!

Thanks for any and all help on this situation.

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Are these two partitions on the same disk?

Is the OS installed on these disks?

As it hasn't rebooted into the Linux environment as yet, it should be OK to stop the task, but there is some risk to this.

When a partition that contains the OS is part of a disk rearranging task, I would suggest booting from the recovery environment and performing disk operations from there so that Windows cannot lock files and RAM and is not attempting to write to disk while DD11 is trying to change the disk MFT contents.

Are the disks set up as a RAID and are they NTFS and if NTFS what type - GPT Basic, Dynamic or MBR?

Is the Server still receiving requests from other machines while you are attempting this procedure?

Have you run chkdsk /r or run a defrag before starting this task?