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shirish007
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after C drive extesion, OS got crashed

Hi,

we had server with windows 2008 64bit, 30GB C drive. We extended C drive to 60GB. in the diskmanager, it got extended to 60GB, but when we right click on C drive in my computer still it was showing as 30GB. we removed the drive from VM properites and readded to VM. started the VM. Now VM is crashing with blue screen with stop error.

Please let me know if any solution of this. Thanks

Details : VC 4.0 with ESX 4.0

Regards,

Shirish

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AWo
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but when we right click on C drive in my computer still it was showing as 30GB.

In general, if you do not use the free VMware onverter to resize a virual disk you only expand the disk, not the partition. That's why you still saw 30 GB for C:. You need to expand the partition as well (the Converter takes care about that for Windows).

we removed the drive from VM properites and readded to VM. started the VM. Now VM is crashing with blue screen with stop error.

Which error?

Which VMware product?


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shirish007
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Hi dear,

Thanks for your response,

Let me give the steps i took, then you can guiide me.

1 ) went VM properties, extended the drive size to 60GB

2) logged on to wind 2008 machine>diskmanager>extend drive

3) in diskmanager it showed 60GB

4) when checked my computer, it was showing as 30GB still.

5) switched off the VM,went to VM properites>removed the disk from vm> readded the same disk

6) switched on the VM, crashing at booting OS.

Please let me know, anywhere i went wrong, i use to do this for some other servers also, i did not faced this issue,

Regards,

Shirish

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JimKnopf99
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Hi,

i do the same in my testenvironment and are able to extend the system drive.

I use Windows Server 2008 R2 and do your steps 1 to 3.

I checked the size with the windows explorer and it shows 60 GB. So no problems at all.

Frank

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JimKnopf99
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But maybe you can do the following.

Shut down the server. Add the disk to an other server with 2008. And extend the disk on that server. Because of the reasen that it is a boot partition

Frank

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shirish007
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Hi Guys,

I solved the problem, this may help you in future.

i used vmware converter , did V to V for creating the new disk. then added that disk back to origional VM. it worked fine.

Regards,

Shirish

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