Performing dynamic disk management is a piece of commonly done work for server users. For server computer stores and deals with a large number of data every day, it requires extremely high read-write speed. As we all know, the hardware performance of server is much higher than personal computer. Besides, to further promote read-write speed, many server managers choose to convert basic disk to dynamic disk whose performance is superior to basic disk. However, hardware promotion is not enough. To maximize remarkable performance of hardware system to promote read-write speed to the largest extent, hard disk space allocation and management are indispensable. Among these operations, resizing partition is a piece of commonly seen hard disk management work. Nevertheless, it is quite difficult to perform hard disk management under Windows Server 2003, because Server 2003 built-in disk management tool has many functional defects. For example, it does not have the function of resizing Windows Server 2003 partition. If Windows Server 2003 users want to resize Windows Server 2003 partition, they have to resort to the third party professional partition magic server.

Resize Windows Server 2003 partition by using third-party partition magic server
Just now, we said many server managers have converted basic disk to dynamic disk. Naturally, partitions on basic disk have been converted to dynamic volumes. At this time, many users find much partition magic server does not support dynamic disk management, so they can not use these kinds of partition magic server to resize Windows Server 2003 partition. However, in order to make Windows server users manage server partition better, MiniTool Solution Ltd. developed a professional partition magic server - MiniTool Partition Wizard which can support dynamic disk management perfectly. Next, let's take resizing striped volume with MiniTool Partition Wizard as an example to demonstrate how to use this professional partition magic server to perform Windows Server 2003 partition management and disk management.

Firstly, visit http://www.server-partition-resize.com to download this partition magic server, and then install it to the Windows server computer. After running it, the following interface will appear:



The above interface is the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard. Here, we can see all disk condition and partition condition. To resize striped volume, we need to select the striped volume and click "Move/Resize" functional button. Then, the following interface will appear:



In this interface, we can resize striped volume by dragging black triangles on both sides of the volume handle. Of course, we can drag volume handle to move striped volume, too (Here, we take extending this striped volume for example). Then, click "OK" to go back to the main interface:



The main interface shows the selected striped volume has been extended, but this is just a preview effect the partition magic server offers. To get the same effect on our computer, we still need to click "Apply" functional button to apply all operations.

This is the whole process of resizing striped volume under Windows Server 2003 by using MiniTool Partition Wizard. From these demonstrations, it is not difficult for us to see that this partition magic server not only has powerful functions but also has easy operations. Even if you are unfamiliar with knowledge of partition management, you can accomplish server partition management under Windows Server 2003 easily, too.