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make room between the C drive and D drive on a virtual machine

I have a windows server 2008 R2 running Vmware server 2.02 hosting a windows server 2008 R2 virtual machine that has a C drive and a D drive. I want to extend the C drive but the D drive is in the way. I'd like to just more the D drive along so create empty space between the two so I can increase the C drive.

Can this be done either with windows 2008 R2 drive tools, Vmware tools that somehow manipulate the vmdk file or do I need a third party program.

I am on a budget so the $600 Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server is out of the question.

Thanks in advance!

binary_1001010

yes, you can extend C drive for windows 2008 even though the os system partition is in it.

1: shutdown your virtual os.
2: on your vmware , click on your virtual disk(under hardware, not datastore) and increase the capacity.
3: turn on your virtual machine.
4: when the os booted, goto disk management and extend the partition.

you don't need 3rd party software, but if you need 1, you can download this, it is free.

http://www.partition-tool.com/
EASEUS Partition Master

Muzafar Momin

to extend the disk size(unallocated size) you will need to use command line tool "diskpart"

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Thanks!

I inherited this problem. I am a programmer who now gets to look after the servers.

I will look into moving to Hyper-V or ESXi

coolsport00

Fun for you, eh? :)

StellerSystems

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it isn't that bad, any break from corporate accounting database programming is welcome, but nothing is ever easy or straight forward. It s all so convoluted. installing BES_X is the most ridiculous thing I have even seen. Good phones, terrible software.