Problem with resizing VHD & Hyper V 2008 R2

I used Disk2vhd util to copy and existing disk to VHD for a new VM on a 2008
R2 Hyper V host. The size is 127GB. Everything was fine. Now I have the need
to expand the VHD to 408GB. I used Hyper V disk util to expand it to 408GB,
verify it successfully.
However, when I use explorer to view C:, it's still 127GB! I cannot copy a
large file to it becuase it didn't recognize the new size.
I even converted it into fixed disk, used the newly created fixed disk VHD,
still shows 127GB.

What did I do wrong here?

Thanks

Bill

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:32:32 -0700, Bill N wrote:

> I used Disk2vhd util to copy and existing disk to VHD for a new VM on a 2008
> R2 Hyper V host. The size is 127GB. Everything was fine. Now I have the need
> to expand the VHD to 408GB. I used Hyper V disk util to expand it to 408GB,
> verify it successfully.
> However, when I use explorer to view C:, it's still 127GB! I cannot copy a
> large file to it becuase it didn't recognize the new size.
> I even converted it into fixed disk, used the newly created fixed disk VHD,
> still shows 127GB.
>
> What did I do wrong here?

The tool expands the size of the disk but not any volumes on the disk.
--
Paul Adare
MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager
http://www.identit.ca

Paul;
How can we enlarge the volume itself?

Thanks again.

Bill

"Paul Adare" <pkadare@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:32:32 -0700, Bill N wrote:

> I used Disk2vhd util to copy and existing disk to VHD for a new VM on a
> 2008
> R2 Hyper V host. The size is 127GB. Everything was fine. Now I have the
> need
> to expand the VHD to 408GB. I used Hyper V disk util to expand it to
> 408GB,
> verify it successfully.
> However, when I use explorer to view C:, it's still 127GB! I cannot copy
> a
> large file to it becuase it didn't recognize the new size.
> I even converted it into fixed disk, used the newly created fixed disk
> VHD,
> still shows 127GB.
>
> What did I do wrong here?

The tool expands the size of the disk but not any volumes on the disk.
--
Paul Adare
MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager
http://www.identit.ca

diskpart

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Bill N" <billn@jaco.com> wrote in message
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> Paul;
> How can we enlarge the volume itself?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Bill
>
> "Paul Adare" <pkadare@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:170bdu2y2jb3j$.1iu3imsm995m6$.dlg@40tude.net. ..
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:32:32 -0700, Bill N wrote:
>
>> I used Disk2vhd util to copy and existing disk to VHD for a new VM on a
>> 2008
>> R2 Hyper V host. The size is 127GB. Everything was fine. Now I have the
>> need
>> to expand the VHD to 408GB. I used Hyper V disk util to expand it to
>> 408GB,
>> verify it successfully.
>> However, when I use explorer to view C:, it's still 127GB! I cannot copy
>> a
>> large file to it becuase it didn't recognize the new size.
>> I even converted it into fixed disk, used the newly created fixed disk
>> VHD,
>> still shows 127GB.
>>
>> What did I do wrong here?
>
> The tool expands the size of the disk but not any volumes on the disk.
> --
> Paul Adare
> MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager
> http://www.identit.ca
>

if the OS using the VHD can expand/extend volume you could try the
diskmgmt.msc
otherwise, image the volume to external drive with something like Symantec
ghost, and restore the image resized.


"Bill N" <billn@jaco.com> wrote in message
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> Paul;
> How can we enlarge the volume itself?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Bill
>
> "Paul Adare" <pkadare@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:170bdu2y2jb3j$.1iu3imsm995m6$.dlg@40tude.net. ..
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:32:32 -0700, Bill N wrote:
>
> > I used Disk2vhd util to copy and existing disk to VHD for a new VM on a
> > 2008
> > R2 Hyper V host. The size is 127GB. Everything was fine. Now I have the
> > need
> > to expand the VHD to 408GB. I used Hyper V disk util to expand it to
> > 408GB,
> > verify it successfully.
> > However, when I use explorer to view C:, it's still 127GB! I cannot
copy
> > a
> > large file to it becuase it didn't recognize the new size.
> > I even converted it into fixed disk, used the newly created fixed disk
> > VHD,
> > still shows 127GB.
> >
> > What did I do wrong here?
>
> The tool expands the size of the disk but not any volumes on the disk.
> --
> Paul Adare
> MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager
> http://www.identit.ca
>