Rather than backing up, deleting , and later having to recreate one of the volumes on the disk, my colleague tried the following instead. He booted his server using a Vista DVD, and when the Install ...

The Diskpart command in Vista now lets you shrink a volume by using the Shrink subcommand, see here for details. This can be useful if you have only one hard disk and a C: drive that fills the disk, ...

Think it is safe to use Diskpart off the 2008 dvd (booting off it) to extend the System Volume on a 2003 box? Annoying that I can't just use the extend command from within the OS. Naturally backups ...