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We recommend you try to extend the partition in Partition Assistant Main Console'.

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Aomei's FAQ page does not inspire confidence in me - one of their own error messages reads 'Sorry, the program doesn't extend this partition yet because of the free disk space insufficient. Lastly: I've used Acronis tools for small system backup & disk management before, and frankly I have more trust in them than I do Aomei when it comes to getting support in the event of problems.

Rescan disks on completion (or reboot) to verify the change has applied as expected.Р”Тђ) Boot into OS, use Diskmgmt.msc to extend primary partition to the required size. Rescan disks on completion (or reboot) to verify the change has applied as expected.Р”В¤) Move the data partition so that it terminates at the end of the disk and apply the change - this will take time because you're basically copying the entire partition contents. Personally, I would leave the second partition in place but resize it to something more proportionate as this reduces the number of configuration changes you're making, and therefore the number of possible issues that you might introduce.Р”Р„ny time I've done this before (haven't had to recently, but had to do it a bunch in the past) I'd do it this way:Р”РЋ) Backup anything important from the disk, and verify the backup.Р”Сћ) Boot into GParted/Clonezilla/whatever.Р”Р€) Reduce the size of the data partition and apply the change.

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It's also worth noting that you should check whether any software installed on the server is looking for files currently on the Data drive, because when you merge those partitions any references to d: will be invalid. So plan for this and make sure you have ILO/IDRAC access. To be clear, you are going to have to reboot the server to complete this operation regardless of what tool you use, because you're looking to modify the partition where the OS is installed. That might be a different physical disk on the same system, a removable drive, or whatever other storage options you have available.

somewhere other than the disk where you are modifying partitions. For clarity, when I say 'backup the 80GB of client data' I mean to a completely separate storage location i.e.

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