Expand Volume on Azure Arc VM

[Bankesy]

Good evening,

 

Really struggling with how to expand the C:\ drive of a VM to the unallocated space because the unallocated space is not immediately to the right of the C:\ drive (some sort of health recovery partition in the way).

 

I incorrectly assumed that because the VM is on Azure Arc (HCI) I would be able to do it there somehow but can't even see the disk using that method so resorted to failover cluster manager but getting nowhere.

 

Thanks

[PotNoodleTech]

I might be wrong but I don't think thats an azure thing - it's a windows O/S thing.  You can only expand the C drive using disk management or diskpart if there are no other partitions behind it.

 

I think you can use third party apps to do it - back in the old days it was partition magic not sure if thats still a thing.  I only create one partition per dedicated virtual disk so never get the problem of multiple partitions appearing behind.

[willtech]

You have to remove the recovery partition see: Expand Boot Disk in Windows Server 2022 – Delete Recovery Partition – ajni.IT

[koryo]

I always found GParted an easy way to see what's going on and move / resize partitions / volumes.

 

https://gparted.org/

 

Don't forget to backup / snapshot beforehand!