> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:29 +0200, Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:20:37 -0700, Colin
> ><(email address - cut out)> wrote:
> >
> >>I had created a VM and installed server 2003 and Biztalk2006 r2. The drive
> >>became close to full (13.5 GB used of possible 15GB). I used VHD Resizer
> >>Tool from vmtoolkit.com and was able to resize the .vhd file to 40 GB. My
> >>new resized VM boots up and when looking at the c:\ drive its still only
> >>using 13.5 GB of the possible 40 GB. Is there a way to expand c:\ to use the
> >>whole 40 GB?
> >
> >You have to expand the partition to use the available disk space.
> >In DiskManager inside the guest, what do you see?
> >
>
> I should have mentioned that unlike VHD Resizer imaging software such
> as Acronis will offer to put the data onto the full new disk
> (expanding the partition). You might want to test that.
>
>
> Bo Berglund
>

>I had created a VM and installed server 2003 and Biztalk2006 r2. The drive
>became close to full (13.5 GB used of possible 15GB). I used VHD Resizer
>Tool from vmtoolkit.com and was able to resize the .vhd file to 40 GB. My
>new resized VM boots up and when looking at the c:\ drive its still only
>using 13.5 GB of the possible 40 GB. Is there a way to expand c:\ to use the
>whole 40 GB?

>On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:20:37 -0700, Colin
><(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>I had created a VM and installed server 2003 and Biztalk2006 r2. The drive
>>became close to full (13.5 GB used of possible 15GB). I used VHD Resizer
>>Tool from vmtoolkit.com and was able to resize the .vhd file to 40 GB. My
>>new resized VM boots up and when looking at the c:\ drive its still only
>>using 13.5 GB of the possible 40 GB. Is there a way to expand c:\ to use the
>>whole 40 GB?
>
>You have to expand the partition to use the available disk space.
>In DiskManager inside the guest, what do you see?
>

> Disk Manager shows my C:\ drive and a new 25 GB unused partition. Do you
> know how I could expand my c:\ drive ? Its a Basic disk and the OS was
> installed on that basic disk.
>
> "Bo Berglund" wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:29 +0200, Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:20:37 -0700, Colin
>> ><(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>> >
>> >>I had created a VM and installed server 2003 and Biztalk2006 r2. The
>> >>drive
>> >>became close to full (13.5 GB used of possible 15GB). I used VHD
>> >>Resizer
>> >>Tool from vmtoolkit.com and was able to resize the .vhd file to 40 GB.
>> >>My
>> >>new resized VM boots up and when looking at the c:\ drive its still
>> >>only
>> >>using 13.5 GB of the possible 40 GB. Is there a way to expand c:\ to
>> >>use the
>> >>whole 40 GB?
>> >
>> >You have to expand the partition to use the available disk space.
>> >In DiskManager inside the guest, what do you see?
>> >
>>
>> I should have mentioned that unlike VHD Resizer imaging software such
>> as Acronis will offer to put the data onto the full new disk
>> (expanding the partition). You might want to test that.
>>
>>
>> Bo Berglund
>>

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:13:30 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>You can use a tool like Acronis to expand the disk. You'll run it from
>>inside the VM. Given that it's a system disk, converting to dynamic isn't
>>a
>>good option. (This all finally gets easier in Server 2008.)
>
> One note though:
> I had a broken laptop to fix recently and tried to create the boot CD
> for cloning the drives by installing the Acronis 15 day demo inside a
> Windows 2003 guest, but it failed because the Acronis demo does not
> install inside a server class Windows. Had to fire up an XP guest
> instead and do it from there.
> However the demo boot CD won't actually boot, it says that the demo
> must be run from within the Windows shell...
>
>
> Bo Berglund

>You can use a tool like Acronis to expand the disk. You'll run it from
>inside the VM. Given that it's a system disk, converting to dynamic isn't a
>good option. (This all finally gets easier in Server 2008.)

> If you build a recovery CD/DVD, it's platform independent. Doesn't matter
> if you're running Server, since at that point, you're running Linux,
> actually. ;)
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>
>
> "Bo Berglund" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:13:30 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>>>You can use a tool like Acronis to expand the disk. You'll run it from
>>>inside the VM. Given that it's a system disk, converting to dynamic isn't
>>>a
>>>good option. (This all finally gets easier in Server 2008.)
>>
>> One note though:
>> I had a broken laptop to fix recently and tried to create the boot CD
>> for cloning the drives by installing the Acronis 15 day demo inside a
>> Windows 2003 guest, but it failed because the Acronis demo does not
>> install inside a server class Windows. Had to fire up an XP guest
>> instead and do it from there.
>> However the demo boot CD won't actually boot, it says that the demo
>> must be run from within the Windows shell...
>>
>>
>> Bo Berglund
>

>If you build a recovery CD/DVD, it's platform independent. Doesn't matter if
>you're running Server, since at that point, you're running Linux, actually.
>;)

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:10:16 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>If you build a recovery CD/DVD, it's platform independent. Doesn't matter
>>if
>>you're running Server, since at that point, you're running Linux,
>>actually.
>>;)
>
> My point is that somehow the CD senses that it is made from a demo
> download and disallows to continue on boot. This should have been
> pointed out in the process of *creating* the CD inside the installed
> demo of Acronis but it was not. But of course it is a demo so one
> could not really complain...
>
> And the server issue came up when I tried to install the demo on a
> W2003 guest I had in an idle state and with undo disks enabled. I just
> wanted to install Acronis in order to make the CD and then discard
> everything on the guest. The install did not work out because of the
> server platform so I had to create a new XP guest (copied the VHD disk
> of an existing one) and fire it up with the undo disks enabled. Then I
> could install Acronis demo and make the boot CD. But when I used it
> later on I got the error....
>
> Meanwhile the IT department managed to make the old disk bootable
> again so the laptop came up into Windows (it did not boot earler but
> was accessible as a USB disk when I moved the drive to a USB adapter).
> With Windows running we could install Acronis demo and from within
> Windows command disk cloning to a new and good (larger) drive, which
> caused Acronis to reboot to a boot time execution and do the cloning.
> This worked fine.
> And the new 250 Gb disk now contains one partition of the whole disk
> with the data from tyhe old 160 Gb disk, which was really the issue in
> this thread that i tried to hint at....
>
> Bo Berglund

>Hmm, interesting. I've been running a full version of Acronis for a while,
>and haven't run into this issue. And it hasn't seemed to matter whether I'm
>booting off a version made with the home version or the server version. (I
>do have both.)