Extended C: drive in ESXi not extending

In diskmanagement shring the disk by about 10MB. Windows usually wants a little free, unpartitioned space to properly reflect the partition's size.

This is unusual, that Converter has failed....

Did you do it as per my EE Article

HOW TO: Shrink or Reduce a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone v5.5.2

HOW TO:  Resize a VMware (VMDK) Virtual Disk

rindi,
The shrink won't allow me to do it.  The Shrink button stays grayed out.

Andrew,
The virtual machine version I choose was 10.  Would that make a difference?
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Maybe run a defrag as the image you posted suggests you to do.

You'd think MS would have built a re-check into the extend volume option of diskpart and the GUI so that if it failed like it has for you it would automatically re-do the extend filesystem for you. I wouldn't run a defrag until you extend the filesystem with diskpart.

Virtual Machine selection should not cause this issue, but I would recommend version 8.0, unless you need the features of v10.

To be honest, I would try again...

Andrew,

This is my third try....

I did one a couple of months ago and it worked just fine. Hmmmm

You can always try allocating a bit more space with VMware then extending the partition again but the extend filesystem option normally fixes this problem. (you don't mention if you have tried it or not even though I have mentioned it twice).

You've done this three times, this conversion ?

and three times it's failed ?

andyalder,

Third time's a charm, sir.
I followed the steps on the More Information section and now I have the extra space.

I must admit, I'm a bit disappointed on the Converter.

It's not a VMware problem, NTFS.SYS is to blame. It happens on physical Windows servers as well.