Extending Drive Space...

[cpjitservices]

OK so I go to shut-down the server this morning (before anyone is due in) to extend drive C: on the main AD Server....

 

I have a formatted drive attached to the VM in VMWare, but in no way shape or form will it let me extend drive C:, I get the option to shrink but not extend... In VMWare if I click the drive all the boxes are greyed out even when the machine is powered off. In one of those boxes I should be able to edit the drive space and the start the VM and extend the volume. But it's not giving me the option!

 

 

Any Ideas ?

 

TIA

[strawberry]

are there any other volumes on the disk?

[cpjitservices]

Partitions yes...

[Netman]

I think I had a similar problem once - IIRC it was because there was a snapshot on the VM. Also check VMWare tools install/update is not running and that hard disk type is SCSI not IDE. Is the disk thin provisioned?

[cpjitservices]

yeah all thin provisioned, I've just selected to delete the latest snapshot and its sticking at 95% - will try again once I've sorted that out.