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I inherited a VMWare server environment where the old admin setup 1 hard disk and split that hard disk into two partitions for the OS Partition and the Data partition. It wouldn't be that bad, however the person only made the OS partition 40 GB and I'm constantly running into disk space issues. Windows will not allow me to extend the partition because it is at the beginning of the virtual disk and when I add more space through vSphere, it only allows to extend the Data partition. Does anyone have any suggestions on either how to actually get the OS partition extended or move it to a new virtual disk that I could add through VMWare? Thanks
Windows Server 2008
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David Johnson, CD
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Thank you for the post. And this command will keep all current share and ntfs permissions in place for the folders and files on the Data drive?
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Thanks! I've looked into some 3rd party tools, but haven't had any verified any yet. Thanks. I'll look into the VMWare tool as well, but I'm running 5.1 Update 3 and not 5.5.
upon testing you will have to run icals per each directory
Directory of D:\
$RECYCLE.BIN
FEBE
msdownld.tmp
Music
Pictures
Recovery
Setup
SPVHD
System Volume Information
Videos
10 Dir(s) 5,816,766,464 bytes free
icacls d:\febe /save febe-ntfsperms.txt /t /c
icacls d:\ /restore febe-ntfsperms.txt
icacls d:\music /save music-ntfsperms.txt /t /c
icacls d:\ /restore music-ntfsperms.txt