How to resize partition win2008

how to resize partition win2008?

how to resize partition win2008?
I know it is a little bit late to reply. But, I still want to share my experiences with everyone here.
Actually, I have ever also ahs the same issue and need to resize my C drive partition for installing a large game. But, the resizing process just unexpectedly fails at last in Disk Management. The “extend” function is unable to work.
So, I have no choice but to take chances with some third party partition resizer recommended in many forums such as:
GParted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free
http://www.resize-c.com/
Active Partition Manager
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Active-Partition-Manager.shtml
All of them seem efficient. So, I just have tried them one by one and finally added wanted free space to my C drive successfully with the second free resizer. I even have found a video tutorial that teaches me how to resize my drive with
this freeware in details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCeT7CbsKk

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