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You are better of increasing the size current VMDK.<br />
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You will need to shutdown the VM. &nbsp;Remove the new drive you just added.<br />
Click on the current drive, under utilities, select expand<br />
Then ener the selected size 340 (140+200). &nbsp;Should then be extend drive D when you power up the VM
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You are better of increasing the size current VMDK.

You will need to shutdown the VM.  Remove the new drive you just added.
Click on the current drive, under utilities, select expand
Then ener the selected size 340 (140+200).  Should then be extend drive D when you power up the VM

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I removed the drive I just added, didnt need to shut down VM.#<br />
Where is utilities? &nbsp;I dont see it.
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I removed the drive I just added, didnt need to shut down VM.#
Where is utilities?  I dont see it.

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I'm running ESX 5.1 with Win2008R2 as a guest OS.<br />
The HDD 1 is 140GB drive divided into 2 disks. &nbsp;C is 60gb and D is 80gb.<br />
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I add another disk in ESX or 200GB. &nbsp;They try to extend D to make is 280, but when I right click on D the option to extend is grey. &nbsp;What am I doing wrong?
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I'm running ESX 5.1 with Win2008R2 as a guest OS.
The HDD 1 is 140GB drive divided into 2 disks.  C is 60gb and D is 80gb.

I add another disk in ESX or 200GB.  They try to extend D to make is 280, but when I right click on D the option to extend is grey.  What am I doing wrong?

Cannot extend disk 0 to disk 1 in Windows 2008 server

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.