{"id":7318,"date":"2023-06-01T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:41:07","slug":"cant-extend-a-volume-in-windows-server-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/cant-extend-a-volume-in-windows-server-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t extend a volume in Windows Server 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"topic-section_header\">Can&#8217;t extend a volume in Windows Server 2022<\/h3>\n<p>one of my customer, which running on the ESXi 7.0.3 and VM Windows Server 2022 with desktop experience and is getting low on disk space.\u00a0 So i resized a disk in the vCenter and like allways i went to the Disk Manager in VM, where i see the 15 GB extra space, but the option &#8222;extend&#8220; was grayed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7319 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18-494x205.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18-494x205.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18-288x120.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18-768x319.png 768w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18-1536x638.png 1536w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.36.18.png 1956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The resolution is very easy, we cannot resize the partition because the Windows has recovery partition. So we can move it or delete it, i choose the second option &#8211; delete it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First of all, <strong>please make a SNAPSHOT of your VM<\/strong>, before you start operations with diskpart.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming disk 0 and the standard three partitions on a clean install:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.16.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7320 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.16-494x422.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.16-494x422.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.16-288x246.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.16.png 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above assumes that partition 4 is the recovery partition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>diskpart<\/li>\n<li>list disk<\/li>\n<li>select disk 0<\/li>\n<li>list partition<\/li>\n<li>select partition 4<\/li>\n<li>delete partition override<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.25.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7321 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.25-494x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.25-494x236.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.25-288x138.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.25-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.29.25.png 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and now i can extend volume \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t extend a volume in Windows Server 2022 one of my customer, which running on the ESXi 7.0.3 and VM Windows Server 2022 with desktop experience and is getting low &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[402,80,401],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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