If you are an IT manager or administrator, you can’t avoid the work of disk management. In some cases, you need to change the size of partitions to make the space distribution reasonable. For instance, if the size of a partition in Windows Server 2003 is too large and the partition is not used frequently, users need to shrink Windows Server 2003 partition or the disk utilization rate will be decreased.
 
We all know that the system files are saved to a certain partition, which is called system partition. Since the system will generate files and data in every second and those files and data will be saved to system partition, too, we need to assign a lot of free space to it in the beginning. However, if there is too much free space left in system partition, it will do no good to computer performance. For instance, if the capacity of the whole hard disk in Windows Server 2003 is 100GB and system partition takes up 90GB of free space (other partitions only have 10GB of free space in total), they had better decrease its partition size in Windows Server 2003. Well, how can they shrink Windows Server 2003 partition in a safe way? This is a question which needs our attention.
 

How to Shrink Windows Server 2003 Partition

Looking at the built-in Disk Management, users will find there is no function which can be used to shrink Windows Server 2003 partition, let alone complete this task in a safe way. If they choose to resort to Diskpart at this time, the same situation will occur. http://www.server-partition-software.com/resize-server-partition/shrink-windows-server-2003-partition.html http://www.server-partition-software.com/resize-server-partition/shrink-windows-server-2003-partition.html http://www.server-partition-software.com/resize-server-partition/shrink-windows-server-2003-partition.htmlIt seems that users only have to decrease partition size in Windows Server 2003 by using third-party software under this circumstance. But which is the most powerful software for partition shrinking? Can it protect data security while operations are processing?
 
Our answer is positive and the name of such software is MiniTool Partition Wizard.
 

 
Users are supposed to complete two operations in the main interface of software.
1. Select the partition that they want to shrink.
2. Click “Move/Resize Partition” function in “Operations” list to start to decrease partition size in Windows Server 2003.
 

 
After that, the corresponding operating interface will appear and users only need to follow the tips there. At last, users will come back to the main interface and they’ll see the preview effect of shrinking, so they still need to click on “Apply” button to execute pervious operations.
 
See, it is a very easy and safe way to shrink Windows Server 2003 partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard. We want to remind users of one thing: they should choose the suitable edition when looking at the purchase page.