Save your changes to the disk, these are the values marked in red. Acknowledge the warning, close Hxd and restart your virtual machine. When the servers reboots successfully you can have a look in Disk Management. Part III Figure Clean up the dynamic disk that is now reported as missing because it was converted to a basic disk. You can optimize your disk partition size if you want using Windows Disk Management or Gparted.
And finally we can delete the data partition and follow the same methods we described to create data partition to resize the disk to the desired size, using VhdResizer … or not? Nope no such luck! When I tried to use VhdResizer. Now what? Well cloning the disk to a squeaky clean fixed vhd directly and after that see if VhdResizer.
Ghost can handle this but is a paying tool. Gparted is also very handy in achieving this, but more hands on. I tried both. Ghost worked well and without issues. Now to prevent any issues, the ones we warned about above, during the cloning we like to mount the source disk and the target disk in an operating system that is another not just a copied virtual machine than the original. That will save you a lot of head ache. But we really wanted to succeed trying this with a free tool so we took to Gparted once more with the source dynamically expanding vhd and target disk fixed vhd mounted in a virtual machine.
We succeeded to clone the partitions one by one to a new fixed vhd disk. We also marked the correct partition as bootable as judged form looking at the original.
But booting from that new disk failed with error 0xce, the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. I launched the command prompt and ran following commands from there:. Part III Figure Fixing 0xce the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
So than I restarted to try and boot from disk, I was told it needed to run chkdsk which is normal when you used Gparted. After chkdsk ran it booted into the operating system from a fully functional fixed vhd disk that was resized to the correct dimensions. It was even accepted by VhdResizer. In the end all was well. Now for the record, this was a demonstration of what we did in one case. It worked for us. The virtualized server is running happily on a live migration Hyper-V cluster as you this is published.
The Final Result achieved in production As a reminder: this is where we came from on the production physical server. We succeeded in separating the C: and the D: partitions to their own disk vhd. The C: and D: disks were also converted from dynamic disks to basic disks. They were also shrunk to a more acceptable size. Finally we converted the disks from dynamically expanding vhd disks to a fixed vhd disks. It is very well explained and helped me through a stressy moment.
Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, Try the first one instead. Extending disk volume Extending the VHD file is just the first step in the process.
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