Recover hard drive - laminated thickness - (ESXi5.1)

Hello.

We recently made some major new buildings on our Windows server 2008R2.  We know have an E:\ drive that does nothing, but is 500 GB.  There is nothing in the E:\ I need to keep.  The problem is the former Administrator put in place the disc with thick so I can't retrieve the space.

My plan to recover the space allotted was:

1. in the server VM disk management, I would like to remove the drive.

2. on vSphere, I then pull out and remove the hard drive for this particular virtual machine.

My assumption would be that the 500 GB would then back up to Datastore1.

Please let know us if I missed a step or steps or please tell me if I'm totally wrong.

Thanks for help.

Hello

Here are the steps I followed to get the square of the unused space in virtual machine to the database.

1. remove the disk volume, 2. Make the drive offline, 3. Make a right click on the VM-> change settings of-> remove hard drive also choose the option 'File Delte from data store'-> click ok

The space will be reclaimed within the data store

Concerning

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