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For example, in my test server, Extend Volume is disabled for C drive after deleting D.īecause D drive here is a Logical drive.

Note: In some special situations, you still cannot extend C drive after deleting contiguous partition D. In this situation, if you still want to extend Windows 2016 C drive without any software, the only choice is: deleting volume D to get contiguous Unallocated space If there is no adjacent Unallocated space on the right side, when you right-click C drive, you’ll find that the Extend Volume is grayed out. What about non adjacent Unallocated space? In a short time, C drive will be extended with the contiguous Unallocated space.

Step 4: Review the selected disk and free space, click Finish to proceed. Step 3: Select disk and available space, click Next. Step 2: In the pop-up window, you’ll see Extend Volume Wizard, click Next. Step 1: Right-click C: drive and select “ Extend Volume“. Note: only when the Unallocated space is adjacent and on the right side of C: drive, you can use it to increase C drive. How to extend C drive in Server 2016 with Unallocated space Note: the steps to expand C drive in Server 2016 Disk Management is for the people who insist on using Windows built-in tool. Right-click Windows icon on bottom left and click Disk Management, where you’ll see all connected storage device with partition structure, as well as capacity and free space of each partition. Extend C: drive in Server 2016 Disk Management In this article, I’ll introduce 2 ways with Disk Management and the safest partition software to extend system C: drive in Windows Server 2016. However, due to some restrictions, it is not the best tool to help extend Server 2016 C drive partition. With advanced feature – Extend Volume and Shrink Volume, you can change partition size without losing data (in most cases).

In Disk Management snap-in, you can do some basic operations such as create, delete, format partition and change drive letter.

However, about disk management ability, nothing new was added, everything keep the same. How to extend C drive in Windows Server 2016 without data lossīetter than previous version Server 2012, Microsoft added new features and improved the performance of Windows Server 2016.