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Increasing space on a drive comes back with an error on a windows server disk

One of my sites was having a low disk space issue (Windows 2019 server) so I opened up VMware (Edit settings) and assigned another 100GB of space to the drive D:. It was set to 250GB and I changed the number to 350GB and saved.

I opened up Windows Disk Management and right clicked on drive 😧 and selected to Extend the volume and when I did that, it told me that ‘There is not enough space available on the disk to complete this operation.

Not sure why. Any help on this one?

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a_p_
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A Rescan doe not require a reboot. You can do that from the disk management.

André

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Can you confirm that the additional free disk space shows up in the Windows disk management, and is adjacent to the partition that you want to expand?

A screenshot may help.

André

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johnny6
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You bet, here are some screen shots

The first one is my Windows 2019 server setup in VMware

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Here is the one in windows after I saved the VMware settings

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and here is the last screen before I save and get the error

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johnny6
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not sure why my images didn't come through on the body of the message but I've attached all of them to that previous message.

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a_p_
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The issue is most likely related to the fact that this is a "Dynamic" disk.
From what I found with a quick search on the Internet is that some users were able to expand the disk after a Rescan.

André

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johnny6
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Ok, good to know. I actually have to restart that server in the next few days so once I do that, I will see and update this post.

thanks for the suggestions.

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a_p_
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A Rescan doe not require a reboot. You can do that from the disk management.

André

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maksym007
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Sorry for interrupting such a productive discussion - what type of SCSI Adapter is on VM?

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johnny6
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BINGO !!

that did the trick, all good now

THANKS a bunch !!

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