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How to increase disk volume??

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The C drive on my NT server has only 1GB of size. Is there a way to add more volume to it? Will it involve reformatting the system at all?
Also, there is no free space on the disk where my C drive is located.

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by mhoward

? Unless you add another drive and use disk administrator to change the size of the logical drive, there is no way to add more volume. A 1 GB drive is just that.

by markchen

I believe the software "Partition Magic" may be able to do what you want.

If your C drive is NTFS you can also use NT compression, by right click and select properties, to gain more space.

Hope this helps.

by mad max

If the c: drive occupies all of the disk then the answer is a bigger disk which you will need to install NT to and copy any data from the old drive. If the drive is partitioned you can copy the other patition data to a new drive ( so there is space on the disk) and use Powerquest's Server Magic to resize the c: drive.

by green lantern

Since you mention this is your C drive, I assume this is your operating system drive. If so, the answer is NO. NT cannot expand the operating system drive.
Using a third party tool like Partition Magic you can increase the partition the C drive is on but not the physical drive size. IE you cannot expand the C drive partition to encompas additional hard drives.
If your hard drive is greater than a gig in size you can expand the system drive to 4 gigs for FAT volumes or 7.8 gigs for NTFS partitions using Partition Magic.

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