Expanding VMWhare Drive Sizes

I made the change on the VM Side and now on the windows side it looks like so
can this still be done?
Drive-Space.doc

Yes, as this is not your system volume. Use diskpart, following the MS KB I posted above and you should be good to go. Let me know if you run into any issues. If you haven't yet done so, take a b/u of your DB.

Regards,
~coolsport00

I'm pretty sure that was already stated...

~coolsport00

I ran a backup hoping that it would clear my Exchange transaction logs witch cause this problem in the first place.
The backup Job completed successfully with Exceptions but didn’t clear the logs. Currently I am at only 319 MB of free space. I’m going to try and Extend the partition, I see in you notes you recommend moving the  DB from this volume during this process  in case something were to go wrong. At the very least, take a current b/u of your DB.
Questions:
•      When I do a backup should I stop the Exchange services first?
•      Should I do a NT backup to a network share or copy the file to a network Share?
•      Do I only need the Priv1.edb and the pub1.edb?

Thanks

Your backup solution should be using Windows VSS. If it doesn't, you can stop the Exchg services. You don't need to do NT Backup, unless that's all you have. What version of Exchg do you have?...2003?...or earlier? Those should be all that you need, but I can't say for sure as it's been way too long since I've used legacy versions of Exchange (I use 2007).

~coolsport00

I am using Exchange 2003  
I have 100Gb of unallocated hard drive space would it be safer if I format this space and create a new partition and change my Exchange properties for the database an logs to point to the new partition?

No...no need to. The chances of something going wrong and/or getting corrupted is remote...but always is a possibility, thus why I suggest to back up your DB. Do you have a VM backup solution? You could do a backup of your VM and that would be fine. Your DB should be ok while doing the diskpart cmd, but me and any expert on here will always recommend taking a current b/u in case something goes "arry".

~coolsport00

Ok currently my page file lives on this Partition I am trying to expand do I just copy the file to a network share for now

Ah ok; yeah..you will need to do that.

Today is not my day I went to move the paging file but it only gives me the option to move it to drive C or D
Just to make sure the Page file is the one that reads pagefile.sys

Move it to C: (which is where it normall is anyway). You're resizing D:, so it won't matter, as long as it's not on the drive your "diskparting".

I took a look at my C drive and I only have 1.20 GB free my Page file is 2.99 GB

Then you have to use a 3rd party tool to finalize the size change like Gparted (free) or Paragon.