There are many reasons why you need to move partition in Windows Server 2022/2025. Fo example: when you cannot extend C drive after shrinking D, you can move D drive to the right and make unallocated space adjacent to C drive, then this problem can be solved. When system disk is full, besides cloning or restoring to a larger disk, you can move one or more partition to another disk and add more space to C drive. This article introduces how to move partition in Windows Server 2022/2025 on a disk and how to move partition to another disk.
Diskpart cannot move partition in Server 2022/2025
The same with previous versions, Windows Server 2022 and 2025 has inbuilt Disk Management and diskpart command tool to manage disk partitions. They can delete, create, format partition and even shrink and extend partition, but they cannot move partition. These native tools cannot change the start postion of any allocated partition. This is the reason why they can only shrink partition from right to the left.
To shrink partition from left to right or move partition in Windows Server 2022/2025, you have to run third party disk partition software.
Move partition to the left/right and end of disk
When moving partition in Server 2022/2025, the start and end postion will be changed, all files in this partition will be moved to new locations, too. That means, there's potential data loss risk, you'd better run safe partition software to accomplish this task. Better than other tools, NIUBI Partition has Virtual Mode, Cancel-at-will, 1-Second rollback and Hot Clone technology to protect system and data.
Before starting, you should know that no software can move a partition over another one. They can move partition to the left or right with adjacent unallocated space.
If you've shrunk D but cannot extend C drive with Disk Management, follow the steps below to move partition D to the right.
How to move partition in Windows Server 2022/2025 to the right:
- Download this tool, right click D: drive and select "Resize/Move Volume", drag middle of D drive towards right in the pop-up window. Then D drive will be moved to the right and unallocated space will be moved to the left at the same time.
- Right click C: drive and run "Resize/Move Volume", drag right border towards right to combine this unallocated space.
- Click "Apply" on top left to take effect, done.
Watch the video how to move partition to extend C drive:
If there's a Recovery/OEM or other partition in the middle of C and D drive, continue to move this partition to the right. When unallocated space is moved to be adjacent, you can extend C drive with this unallocated space easily.
If you want to extend E drive (on the right) after shrinking D, you can achieve without moving partition or unallocated space. To do this, right click E drive and run "Resize/Move Volume". Drag left border towards left to merge this unallocated space in the pop-up window.
How to move partition to another disk
As I said above, when a disk is getting full, beside cloning or restoring to a larger disk, you may move one or more partitions to another disk. After moving these partitions, you can delete them and add the disk space to C drive.
When moving partition to another disk, there must be unallocated space on the destination disk. If there's no such space, you can make it by shrinking a partition. To do this, right click a partition on destination disk and select "Resize/Move Volume". Drag either border towards the other side in the pop-up window.
How to move partition in Server 2022/2025 to another disk:
- Right click a partition such as D: and select "Copy Volume", select the unallocated space on destination disk in pop-up window.
- Edit the size, location and type of the target partition and click Finish.
- Right click partition D and select Change Drive Letter, change it to any other one.
- Change the drive letter of copied partition to D.
Watch the video how to do this:
Besides moving partition in Windows Server 2022/2025 and previous Server 2019/2016/2012/2008/2003, NIUBI Partition Editor helps you do many other disk partition management operations such as shrink, extend, merge, convert, defrag, hide, wipe, optimise file system, scan bad sectors and much more.
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