How Windows Server 2008 Lossless partition is adjusted

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Windows 2008 Lossless tuning partition (top)
Many friends after a long time using the computer, only to find that the previously partitioned disk partition is not reasonable, but this time the disk partition often save a lot of data information, if the Windows system built-in FDISK command to re-partition the settings, All data information that is saved in the disk partition will be lost.
If you want to make a lossless disk partition adjustment, often need to download the use of professional disk management tools to complete, such as commonly used tools such as PartitionMagic, PowerQuest, so, there is no professional disk management tools to help, Is there no way we can make a lossless adjustment to the disk partition? The answer is NO! In the Windows Server 2008 system environment, we can take advantage of the system's own disk partition management function, you can easily make a non-destructive adjustment of the disk partition!
To underline a new partition in an existing partition
Most of the time, when your computer is just bought back, it contains only one partition, and its space capacity can reach hundreds of gigabytes. In an older system environment, it is often difficult to draw a portion of disk space as a new disk partition, which must be done with some professional tools, but we can do it easily in a Windows Server 2008 system environment. Now, this article is a step-by-step procedure for creating a new disk partition in a Windows Server 2008 system environment:
First enter the Windows Server 2008 system environment with system administrator privileges, click "Start"/"Run" command in the System desktop, enter the string command "Compmgmt.msc" in the popup system run text box, and click Enter to enter the Windows The Computer Management window of the Server 2008 system;
Next, in the display area on the left side of the Administration window, expand the Computer Management/storage/Disk Management branch options (shown in 1), and in the right display area of the corresponding Disk Management branch options, we will clearly see the disk partitioning settings on the local system;

Use the mouse to select the target partition to divide the new partition, and right-click the disk partition, from the popup shortcut menu to execute the "compressed volume" command, into the compression settings shown in 2 dialog box, from which we can also very intuitive to see the capacity of the disk space can be split out and the total capacity of the original disk partition In the dialog box, in the Input compressed space text box, enter the amount of disk space you want to split correctly, and when you click the Compress button in the corresponding dialog box, the Windows Server 2008 system automatically compresses the original disk partition;

Windows 2008 Lossless Tuning partition (middle)
By the end of the compression split operation, the partition's disk space capacity will automatically appear behind the original disk partition, with the words "free space" on the partition option, and the right mouse click on the "Free space" disk partition to execute the "new Simple Volume" command from the popup context menu. Open the Create Wizard dialog box shown in 3, and in the simple volume size text box of the dialog box, enter the space capacity of the new disk partition, but the value entered here must be between the maximum amount of disk space and the minimum amount of disk space;

After setting the space capacity of the new disk partition, click the Next button to enter the wizard Setup window shown in 4, in which we can select the Assign the following drive letter option and specify a disk partition symbol that is not used for the new disk partition. In general, we just use the default allocated partition symbol, and if you want to distribute the disk partition symbol for the new disk partition at a later time, we can also select the "Do not assign drive letter or drive path" option here.

Then continue to click the Next button, select the "format this setting by the following" option from the wizard Settings window shown in 5, and then set the file system format and volume label format, then select the "Perform Quick format" option, and then click on the wizard Settings window after you confirm that the above information is set correctly. "Finish" button, so that a new partition in the existing partition will be effective.

Windows 2008 Lossless Tuning partition (bottom)
Merging multiple partitions into one partition
Now that you can easily split a partition into several partitions, is it easy to merge several partitions into one partition in a Windows Server 2008 system environment? As a matter of theory, it can be done easily; however, after several practices of the author, it is found that in the Windows Server 2008 system environment cannot directly merge several disk partitions into one partition, but we can indirectly merge multiple partitions into one partitioning as follows:
First, in the same way, open the Windows Server 2008 System Computer Management window, in the left side of the window display area, with the mouse click the "Computer Management"/"Storage"/"Disk Management" node options, in the corresponding Disk Management node options to the right of the display area, Select a disk partition to keep, and then open the System's Explorer window and copy all the other disk partition contents that need to be merged into the reserved partition into the reserved partition;
Next use the mouse to select a few other disk partitions that need to be merged, and right-click them, from the popup shortcut menu to select the "Delete Volume" option, then the screen will appear 6 dialog box, the dialog will remind us to merge the other partitions, it is necessary to do a good job of data backup; Click Yes in the dialog box button, the Windows Server 2008 system automatically removes those disk partitions that are selected, and the space capacity of those partitions appears at the "Free space" area;

Immediately after you right-click the disk partition that was previously reserved, execute the Extended volume command in the context menu, and then click the Next button in the wizard Settings window to open the Settings dialog box shown in 7, where the maximum free space text box displays the capacity size that can be used to expand , we just enter the capacity to expand in the "Select the amount of space" text box, in general, as long as the sum of the capacity of a few of the merged partitions can be filled here, then click the "Next" button, and finally click the "Finish" button, so that the space capacity of multiple partitions will be merged into a disk partition, In this way, we can indirectly implement the purpose of merging disk partitions.

It is important to note that all disk partitions to be merged must be together, and each disk partition should be formatted in NTFS format, otherwise we will not be able to successfully perform a lossless partition operation!
Little Tips
in a Windows Server 2008 system environment, when we manage individual disk partitions, we often find that in a Disk Management window in that system environment, although you can perform a format operation on a newly created disk partition, or recreate the system primary partition operation, However, in this system environment, we can not create the extended partition of the disk, if the local computer installed two or more than two operating systems are good, if only one Windows Server 2008 system, then we create a disk extension partition of the operation is a bit troublesome, But we can skillfully use DOS commands to create a new logical partition of a disk:
First, enter the Windows Server 2008 system with System administrator privileges, click the start, Run command in the System desktop, enter the string command "cmd" in the popup system run text box, and click the "OK" button to open the MS-DOS window of the system. Enter the string command "DiskPart" in the command line State of the window, and when you click Enter, the system status will be automatically switched to the DiskPart command line mode;
second, in the DiskPart command line mode, enter the "Select disk X" string command, where "X" refers to the physical disk number on the local computer, for example, if we want to create a new extended partition for the second physical disk, you can enter "select Disk 1" String command, and the first physical disk should have a sequence number of "0";
then enter the "create partition Extended" String command, after you click Enter, the system will automatically create a good extended partition on the target physical disk, all the free disk space after the primary partition will be automatically occupied, wait until the creation operation is finished, It is not necessary for us to continue using the related string command that created the logical disk partition, after all, the Windows Server 2008 system only allows us to create a system logical partition by default, and it is clear that such features often do not meet the needs of some advanced users. In fact, once we have created the logical partition of the system, open the system's Disk Management window again, and in that window, right-click on the target logical disk partition, we can also see the "New Simple Volume" command from the popup shortcut menu, we can divide the new logical disk partition arbitrarily by this command.   The problem is resolved