You have 2 choices and your choice depends on which is more cost efficient for you:

- purchase something like Acronis Disk Director for servers and shrink the D drive at the beginning of the partition and grow the C drive with the freed up space

- back up everything on your D-drive, delete your D-drive partition, download extpart.exe from support.dell.com, extract the files, in a dos-windows run a "extpart c: size_you_want_to_add_in_MBs" (e.g. "extpart c: 8192" to add 8GB), then recreate your D-drive and restore the data to it.

With either option you always want to have full backups of your data, just in case something doesn't go 100% according to plan.

wrogers...

Paragon will also do the job, never used Easus. Before I would use any util I would create some room on the C: partition. I am sure you could cleanup/ free at least 1.5 gigs, as I worked on many  W2000 servers with only 4.9 Gig.   

This is a very small business server and I have looked all over for non necessary files and connot find any thing I can remove. The Windows server 2003 folder is 5+ GB alone, then add my necessary business software and the drive is consumed.  For some reason today my C drive shows only 310 MB left. Restoring the Spftware should I lose it would be a nightmare. I inherited this server and software and dont have a clue how to restore on a moments notice. Any suggestions? Also is thier software that would Image the C drive alone to a single drive or an external bootable drive?

How easy is Acronis to use and do you have any idea how much space is needed to install?

I have found that the pagefile files (pagefile.sys) which in  your VIEW settings is typically set to HIDDEN, default to the C: drive.

You will have to do a server reboot, but for all my servers, I have moved my pagefile.sys files to the D: or E: partitions and this saves 2-4GB depending on the size of the pagefile.

However, I'm in the same situation as you all above.  I have a poweredge 1900.  I've installed the Dell Openmanage utilities, and I don't see a way to resize partitions to accomodate future growth needs.  I have an old server which I inherited when I took this position that had free space and allowed one to 'extend' volume sizes as needed.

Does anyone have advice on this?

This problem is easy to solve, just resize other partitions to be smaller and get some unallocated space behind the system partition, after that you can expand the OS partition. You may try partition magic server, with which you just need to drag and move on the disk map, very easy.

Here is a tutorial how to resize raid 5 partition without data losing

670MB is somewhat too small for a system partition.

Which system do you use? If you are use Windows Vista or some other more advanced system, you can extend and shrink the disk with the Disk Management tool.

If you use some other system, I still recommend the partition software which can ease the partitioning process. However, to make a bacup of the data to avoid any data loss is needed.

How to backup hard drive partition?

After all the data has been backed up, you may extend the system partition without any worry!

How to resize RAID 5 array?

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I agree with spotcat and Jewlee's idea. I have tried EASEUS Partition Master and it works well.

Resize RAID 5

Don't worry, it is easy to solve this problem, see the guide how to resize raid 5 partition that I have bookmarked.

First, there is NO METHOD to resize a boot (C:) partition that has no risk ... there is always risk in doing this.

Second, I would find a new article/tutorial ... maybe this one helped you, but it is very poorly written and does not display even a fundamental understanding of what RAID has to do with Windows partitions (which is nothing).  There are two main types of RAID - software and hardware RAID.  Both scenarios the article describes include servers that would be running hardware RAID, meaning that there is a dedicated processor managing the read/writes from/to the individual drives, while Windows sees just a single "logical" unit of storage.  Windows is not even aware of the individual disks that make up the RAID array.  Software RAID is a RAID array managed by Windows (or some other OS).  RAID 5 is possible from within Windows, but this article was not written for software RAID - that changes everything. 

Because Windows is not aware of the individual drives, resizing partitions on a RAID 5 is no different than resizing partitions on a single/non-RAID drive.  He mentions this, which makes me wonder why even talk about RAID at all without explaining that RAID doesn't even matter when doing this.

Sorry ... just don't want there to be any confusion out there.