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Is the OS installed on a small partition then the data on a larger partition?
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Is the OS installed on a small partition then the data on a larger partition?

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All the Hyper-V files are on an iSCSI volume labeled &quot;H:\&quot;. &nbsp;This is the volume I need to convert from MBR to GPT.
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All the Hyper-V files are on an iSCSI volume labeled "H:\".  This is the volume I need to convert from MBR to GPT.

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Your plan works, it is simple to move VM's from one host to another, or from one data location to another.
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Your plan works, it is simple to move VM's from one host to another, or from one data location to another.

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Hello Experts,<br />
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Had a general issue / question regarding Hyper-V servers. &nbsp;Currently I have a misconfigured volume on the host server housing Hyper-V servers and their VHDX files. &nbsp;I need to change this volume from MBR to GPT so I can add space over 2TB.<br />
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Question: &nbsp;If I shut down the Hyper-V servers and manually move/backup all files to another volume, could I then: &nbsp;1. recreate/modify the MBR volume to GPT. 2. Move the files back to the original volume and 3. start Hyper-V services and servers like nothing happened?<br />
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I dont have clustering, and live migration to another server isnt working because I suspect these are domain controllers they are on (part of the project that involves this is to demote these DCs to normal host servers.)
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Hello Experts,

Had a general issue / question regarding Hyper-V servers.  Currently I have a misconfigured volume on the host server housing Hyper-V servers and their VHDX files.  I need to change this volume from MBR to GPT so I can add space over 2TB.

Question:  If I shut down the Hyper-V servers and manually move/backup all files to another volume, could I then:  1. recreate/modify the MBR volume to GPT. 2. Move the files back to the original volume and 3. start Hyper-V services and servers like nothing happened?

I dont have clustering, and live migration to another server isnt working because I suspect these are domain controllers they are on (part of the project that involves this is to demote these DCs to normal host servers.)

Copy / Paste Hyper-V virtual server files between volumes work?

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