Expand a virtual drive (System partition)

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• Expand a virtual RAID 5 Partition on a Perc 6i

  All,

  I'm running a Dell PowerEdge with the Perc 6 / i card. When the server has been setup, a RAID 5 was created from three drives of 2 TB. During the initial construction, I discovered that I could not create a RAID array 5 4 TB to the unique address and be able to install windows. The solution I found was to create two separate partitions within the open manage software; the first partition is a 250 GB boot 'reader', which windows is installed, and the second is the data 'reader' where my data.

  

  Now, I ran out of room on the data "drive" and would like to extend the table. All the instructions I find mention by clicking on the menu drop down and select reconfigure. I don't have this option.

  I have a 2 TB drive unallocated on the server that has been cleaned using the clean option in openmanage.

  

  Is there something I'm missing or is it because I created these "partitions" of virtual disk that I am now no longer extend the range?

  Thanks in advance,

  PercNoob

  I did some additional research and managed to find that you are not able to get the option to reconfigure it is because the Raid array is 'cut' into two separate virtual disks. If the entire raid 5 was a simple VD then you would be able to see the option reconfigure you're looking for.

• Develop a virtual drive on a Dell Perc 6 / i Raid 6?

  Hello

  I have a PowerEdge T310 with 4 disks hotswap (raid 6), and his running dangerously low on space...

  Can I just buy 4 new larger discs and (one by one) replace the 'old'?

  If I can expand the virtual drive or I have to create a second virtual disk with the new free space?

  Thanks for your help

  -Michael

  Hello RobertQuinn,

  Here's the way taken in charge to get extra space for your system.

  (1) get a backup of your data

  (2) remove the table

  (3) to re-create the table with the big readers

  (4) reinstall OS if have a BONE on the front table

  (5) to restore the backup data

  Now, it is also a way not taken in CHARGE that you can do it as well & to do this as it is as follows:

  (1) get a backup of your data.

  (2) rebuild each disc large table.

  (3) after all rebuilt Delete array.

  (4) after the table has been deleted and then make a change

  (5) does NOT init the virtual disk

  (6) create new array with Available space

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Size of the problems after the system partition resizing - are X 201 hard drives using a particular geometry?

  I recently copied my default system hard disk (320 GB / Western Digital) on a larger hard drive (500 GB / Hitachi) which I also ordered through Lenovo.

  Using a disk imager I first copied the old 1:1 the new disk drive. It gave me an exact copy of my original disk, with about 150 GB of space disk unallocated at the end of the training. I then put this copy in the system and it worked very well, I could start and work at it.

  -With the help of Acronis Disk Director 11 - I moved the hidden partition Lenovo restore to the end of the new drive, and then finally I expanded the system partition to fill all the available space before this recovery partition, giving me a system about 430 GB drive.

  These operation seemed to go very well at everything first, but in the end I got an alert that something had gone wrong and now the disk may be corrupted. Strange, I was able to boot from the disk and everything went well in the beginning but in fact - I now have a very weird problem: when you look in the Panel-online-online disk management management system all partitions are located and that I had the intention of size. The recovery partition (~ 17 GB) is at the end and the system partition is indicated as approximately 430GB and about 60% vacuum. Explorer Windows, however, always reports the size of the old partition (~ 280 GB) and only 10% of empty space, while if there is no resizing the partition space taken.

  In other words: different parts of Windows 'see' and report to different partition sizes. Running chkdsk does not resolve the issue.

  I then realized this phenomenon in the Acronis Disk Director forum and some guys Acronis replied, that problems of resizing and therefore also the difference could be due to the fact that IBM/Lenovo uses a geometry to non-standard head of 240 heads instead of 255 heads. ????  I then asked for details and - if possible - instructions - how we could solve this problem, but got no further response so far.

  Any idea what he's talking about? Lenovo indeed uses some non-standard disk or geometry? I would have thought, that the access disk is the disk drivers? Lenovo have to do here? Or BIOS of the device involved here?

  And finally: has anyone some experience with this problem and can give an idea how to solve this problem? I'd really like to * hate * restart everywhere have to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything again!

  Michael

  Thanks for this info!

  I'll try to get my wrecked HD using the Paragon suggested partitioning program and I guess, I'll also try to get a refund on DiskDirector 11, since the site explicitly, it is fully ready Windows7, which obviously isn't!

  Michael

• OK to format the partition if not the start of the original drive SYSTEM more?

  I bought an SSD for my HP Pavilion dv7 and installed as boot drive primary, the upgrade with a new copy of Windows at the same time. I use the original drive in the second slot for data and formatted the original C: partition, but does support does not on the other 3 partitions. I wish I could use at least one primary partition for another OS or as a partition backup. If I want to leave the quiet recovery partition and be able to run the diagnostics, which means SYSTEM... Can the recovery tools if they are not on the boot drive? If so, I can take the SYSTEM partition (the SSD has the active boot partition).

  Hello

  Unless the Bios can access the partition HP_TOOLS at startup (which he won't be able to leave readers in the second span), you will lose the ability to run the extended diagnostics and the ability to have the bios flash run on reboot.  The bios will always be able to update, but the flash will run in the Windows environment that has more potential to cause problems.

  However, the HP_TOOLS partition can be created on a flash drive or you can simply create it on your SSD - see the document at the link below on this - This is for example and the included download may not be correct for your particular laptop, then you must get this information from your own product page.

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-101396-1&CC=UK&DLC=en&LC=en&OS=4063&product=4315295&sw_lang=

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• You want to transfer my Win XP system on a new HARD drive. Are there problems with the copying of the system partition?

  Want to transfer all the information on my current including system partitions and data to a new HARD drive than my current HARD drive shows signs of debris. I suspect there are a few problems in the copy of the system partition as some files are not available for copying while windows is running?

  I advise to read the article on the copy of the hard drive in the first place, you can learn more. (:

• I accidentally loaded a .iso file on my PC and can not get rid of it. When I try to delete the file it says that the file is opened by the system. Also the file created 3 virtual drives like E:, F: and G: __Please let me know how I can remove this .iso

  I accidentally loaded a .iso file on my PC and can not get rid of it.  When I try to delete the file it says that the file is opened by the system.  Also the file created 3 virtual drives like E:, F: and G:
  Please let me know how I can remove this .iso file.

  Try Safe Mode. Repeatedly press the F8 key as the computer starts getting the menu diagnosis. Use the arrow key to select Mode without failure. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• Expand the C drive in Windows 2003 Sp2

  Hello

  I need to expand a VM windows Server 2003 R2 C: drive using VMware vcenter convertor, fight, it doesn't did me not the possibility of increasing the C: drive. What is the alternative? or I've missed using the V2V? Thank you.

  kamran7446 wrote:

  Thanks for your reply. Yes, it's showing as unallocated, but because it's a system (C:\) drive I can't extend it by using Diskpart utility I can do for other readers.

  There are different ways to do this for Win 2003 (easy in 2008, has expanded in the GUI). For Windows 2003 you could close the virtual machine, get the VMDK on another Windows Server, use Diskpart or another tool to extend partition here - since it is not the system partition / boot. Then mount it in the original virtual machine.

  Official VMware training, they recommend a free tool from Dell, called extpart.exe. Simple tool command-line which allows to extend the system partition / boot when the virtual machine is running. Check it out and try if you wish.

  It is on the FTP of Dells site at ftp.dell.com/app, any logon not required.

  Tool: http://ftp.dell.com/app/ExtPart.exe

• Problem with the virtual drive.

  On my g6 Pavilion, I get the full message e: HP_TOOLS road.   It is a virtual drive on my pc, how do I deploy using DISKPART to BACK?

  Thank you

  Tom

  Did you make the registry change that I sent you a private message?

  So, I agree with your statement. These are certainly back up files. The question is; What is backup files?

  Microsoft System Restore only deals with backup of critical system files and registration and records in a hidden folder that is not easily editable. In addition, you verified that this is not enabled for this player. So who is excluded.

  Another possibility is that other Windows, such as Windows Backup service, creates these files. Backup Windows treats the user's choice of the files instead of just the files of backup system.

  Try the following steps.

  1. Click Start, type "backup and restore" and press ENTER.
  2. This will bring up the Windows backup window. It seems to be set up, or it asks you to configure for the first time?
  3. If it is flagged by the look on the left side and you should see an option "disable automatic schedule;" turn this option off. The backup will be not automatically, but you can always do it manually on this screen.
  4. Delete the file Moberdan_HP from the HP_Tools partition.
  5. Improperly editing the registry if you used it.
  6. Reboot the laptop and make sure that the problem is resolved.

• TouchSmart 610 - installation of windows 8 on a partition, error, not enough space on the system partition?

  I created a 150 GB partition to install Windows 8 so I can dual boot Win 7 and Win 8.  When I try to install, I get a message that there is not enough free space on my score 'system '.  The only thing I can think is that it refers to the partition of 100 MB (reserved) system.  It has only 10 MB of free space.  The partition I want to install on obviously has a lot of space.  Someone had this problem and got around him?

  UPDATE: found the problem with my 100 MB partition reserved.  I assigned a drive letter in disk management and saw a "test.vhd" of 55 MB file.  I recognized as a virtual drive that I had created and deleted a few months ago!  Deleted this file and then removed the drive letter assignment and Windows 8 is installed on my score in 15 minutes approximately.

  Hello meezer,.

  Glad you was able to get installed it. He always seems to be the little things that make us the most problems.

• How to expand your virtual hard disk while host hard disk space is not enough?

  People,

  Hello. I use VM Player 3. My host computer is Windows 7 and VM is Oracle Linux 5. I need to expand the virtual hard drive Oracle Linux 5 from 100 GB to 150 GB. When I click on VM > Settings > hard drive > utilities > expands...

  The error message:

  There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation.

  To after my understanding, we have enough room to store the VHD original more expanded VHD.

  This means that the free space on the host needs to be 100 GB + 150 = 250 GB

  The total size of the hard disk of the Windows 7 host is 284 GB. The VM already occupies 100 GB of 284 GB. The maximum free space is 184 GB less space and boot OS. This means that I can't develop the 100 GB to 150 GB VHD.

  But I have to expand the virtual hard disk! I don't know if there are other ways to expand the virtual hard disk.

  My question is:

  Folk understand some ways to expand the virtual hard drive ranging from 100 GB to 150 GB drive hard host is only 284 GB?

  Thanks in advance.

  You explained, it is the behavior with monolithic virtual disks, which is a unique hard file. Because the file requires more space for its metadata at the beginning of the file, all the blocks of data must be copied to a new file. With the format of sparse file 2 GB virtual disks can be extended without the need to copy the data into a new file hard, because each the hard contains its own metadata. In case you don't have at least ~ 100GB of disk space you can use vmware-vdiskmanager convert/clone the virtual drive command line utility in a format of 2 GB sparse file, delete the original virtual disk (after saving), then use vmware-vdiskmanager again to rename the new virtual disk to the old name. Once done, you will be able to expand the virtual disk as required.

  André

• Expand XP hard drive?

  I am running Win/XP on my iMac and have noticed that the icon 'the disk light blue' is the long periods of time every time I try to write a file on the disk. Looking at the stats from hard drive on the XP client, I see that it's a 20 GB drive with only 1.1 GB free. Kind of leads me to believe that the hard drive can be stolen in an attempt to find free blocks. There is only so much rubbish on the drive that can be removed.

  My question is - can I stop this virtual guest and allocate more space HDD without losing data already on the virtual drive of 20 GB? Or, is it possible to add a second drive "D" at this prompt?

  Thanks, Jim

  W6JHB wrote:

  My question is - can I stop this virtual guest and allocate more space HDD without losing data already on the virtual drive of 20 GB?

  Yes... Take a look at: resizing of the ramdisks with step by step Instructions

  Or, is it possible to add a second drive "D" at this prompt?

  You can add that a second HDD virtual, but with so little space on the C: drive I would opt to expand the size of the virtual hard disk, and then expand the virtual partition which is the C: drive.

• Migration of the existing NTFS files in a virtual drive with ESX4i

  I have an existing Windows Vista system with a SATA 1.5 TB filled with large files on an Intel quad-core box.

  I would like to migrate this to an ESXi server on which I can run multiple virtual machines.

  I bought a new 2 TB drive and a plan to install ESX4i on it.  I disconnects the 1.5 TB of disk during installation so I do not lose my existing files.

  Question: What is the best way to transfer the contents of my NTFS partitions in a sufficiently large VMDK into a new virtual machine running?

  A really slow method would be to use a SATA/USB adapter and copy the files on the USB bus virtualized virtual machine.

  Is there a way I can build a 'temporary' virtual machine by editing the vmx virtual machine file so that I can map a virtual drive at/dev/disks/xxxxx of the hypervisor?  As soon as I knew I could map it, its trivial to have a virtual machine linux, mount the ntfs volume, and then transfer the files to a virtual machine second.

  (I did play a little bit, and it seems that the biggest disk virtualized I could create in a virtual machine under ESX4i 250 GB.  No problem, since I can create a handful of small discs and then link them together using LVM, but it seemed weird and maybe a problem with my system.  Not sure if this has no effect on my question, but better ask guess.)

  Thank you very much

  Maximum virtual disk size:

  Default ESXi sets the size of the block of VMFS 1 MB data store, which translates into a maximum. Size of 256 GB VMDK.

  (see block a VMFS data store size limits for more details)

  If you need larger virtual disks you just remove the data store created during installation and create a new one with the size of the desired block (Configuration-> storage). In your case it would be the block size of 8MB.

  All the data on the data store will be lost. So make sure you do this right after the installation or you back up a VM already created!

  André

• Snapshot before resizing the guest OS system partition, it will allow me to roll back if problems arise?

  I currently have an ESXi Server vsphere 4.0 with Windows 2003 Server comments on that operating system. And just to be clear, this virtual machine is a control area on the network.

  The problem I have is that the system partition (C drive on the guest operating system) is running out of room. I have plenty of room in the data store where the virtual machine, so I added 30 GB drive under disk space commissioning in additional virtual machine settings page. The configuration type is thick. So everything seems to work great so far, I see this space as unallocated within the guest OS.

  After some research, I found several tools that help me to inresizing the system partition to take advantage of the additional disk space. Specifically, I intend to use the dell (ExtPart) DiskExt utility to resize the partition in order to reduce downtime. Apparently, this tool works without restarting the Windows machine.

  My question is, if I make a snapshot before you try to resize the partition of guest operating system, this would allow me to go back and cancel any potential damage that resizing of disk can cause? I understand that I expected to be able to undo a change such as this with a snapshot, I just want to be 100% sure.

  And no, I'm not trying to use a snapshot as a substitute for a backup. I do a snapshot to reduce downtime in case of a problem.

  Any information on this would be highly appreciated.

  I guess I over thought the process a little too, so I tested.  Works like a charm.  extended to the HDD via the vSphere Client, created a snapshot, ran extpart extend drive C:, delete the snapshot.  VM, although not a controller domain and just a test VM, is functional and happy.

• Expand a virtual disk in VMware?

  I was wondering if it is possible to extend the system on one of my virtual machines partition? I know that I can add another hot player, but I desperately need to extend system partition... Thanks in advance

  If your virtual machine is Windows 2008 and you use ESX 3.5 U2 so you can develop the disk online. Change the settings on the virtual machine, and then in the prompt use diskpart to extend the system partition to use the extra space.

  If you use an earlier version of Windows or ESX, you can always extend the partition but the virtual machine must be turned off. Power off the virtual machine, rotate the VMDK is through changing the settings (ESX3.5) or vmkfstools-x console, then attach the drive system of the virtual machine to a different VM Windows or start the virtual from a WinPE computer. ISO and use diskpart to extend partition as described above.

  For more information about the use of MS diskpart just google, plenty of info out there.