gray squirrel Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 So I am just moving my gaming rig into a VM and I went to expand my Vdisk from 100G to 200G following Spaceinvader One video However, The windows recovery partition is in the wrong place, so I can't extend the C drive. Is there a way to manage the partitions in a Vdisk, so I can move it out of the way? Quote Link to comment
gray squirrel Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 Fixed, just used a free partition management tool and moved the recover Partition to the end. Quote Link to comment
jgs2n Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I don't see a dropdown for vdisk capacity in my unraid gui like in the video. What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment
gray squirrel Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 If you click on the VM name it displays the a disk info. Just edit the value for the one you want to change Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 On 10/28/2020 at 6:53 AM, gray squirrel said: Fixed, just used a free partition management tool and moved the recover Partition to the end. I am facing the same issue (and even an additional). 1) What tool did you use and what partition did you move? 2) Oddly enough, mine even shows 4 partitions? Two data/boot partitions that I plan to merge. 1 system partition and 2 (!) recovery partitions. When right-click, it only shows "help". Can I delete it? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
avinyc Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 On 1/14/2021 at 11:36 PM, steve1977 said: Any thoughts? I just set up a windows vm and forget to adjust the initial size of 30g. I went to increase the capacity and got the same problem. I downloaded Paragon Partition Manager: https://www.paragon-software.com/us/free/pm-express/ Resized the partitions easily. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Thanks. Do you also have two recovery partitions and did you delete one? Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 On 1/24/2021 at 3:09 PM, steve1977 said: Thanks. Do you also have two recovery partitions and did you delete one? Any thoughts on above? I still have two recovery partitions and wondering whether I should delete one? That's on-top of the boot/data partition and the system partition. And on separate note, I had tried to expand the disk further. It changed from 1.5TB to 2.0TB, but this didn't do anything. I then tried 1.8TB instead, but it changes it to 2TB automatically. The disk size though stays at 1.5TB and no additional unallocated space exists in disk manager. Quote Link to comment
tjb_altf4 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Old post, but I just had to tackle this issue myself for a Win10 install, so I thought I'd document the process... Problem: You have expanded your vdisk, but now there is a recovery partition blocking the expansion of the main partition in Disk Management console, like pictured below On 10/28/2020 at 5:18 AM, gray squirrel said: Solution: In my case I could open up diskpart (elevated), and force the deletion, be very sure you have chose the correct partition! If completed successfully, you will now be abled to extend your disk in Disk Management. I'd expect at some point in the future that this recovery partition would be recreated. This link has some other useful methods if this method does not work https://superuser.com/questions/1023765/how-to-delete-the-recovery-partition-in-windows-10 2 Quote Link to comment
Linguafoeda Posted Monday at 04:38 AM Share Posted Monday at 04:38 AM (edited) On 1/23/2021 at 11:54 PM, avinyc said: I just set up a windows vm and forget to adjust the initial size of 30g. I went to increase the capacity and got the same problem. I downloaded Paragon Partition Manager: https://www.paragon-software.com/us/free/pm-express/ Resized the partitions easily. On 8/15/2021 at 8:03 AM, tjb_altf4 said: Old post, but I just had to tackle this issue myself for a Win10 install, so I thought I'd document the process... Problem: You have expanded your vdisk, but now there is a recovery partition blocking the expansion of the main partition in Disk Management console, like pictured below Solution: In my case I could open up diskpart (elevated), and force the deletion, be very sure you have chose the correct partition! If completed successfully, you will now be abled to extend your disk in Disk Management. I'd expect at some point in the future that this recovery partition would be recreated. This link has some other useful methods if this method does not work https://superuser.com/questions/1023765/how-to-delete-the-recovery-partition-in-windows-10 Just wanted to follow up that i didn't want to delete the recovery partition for the Windows VM after expanding the disk in the blue box of the VM tab in Unraid, so i used Paragon as well to simply expand and it worked like a charm without deleting the recovery partition (didn't have to restart or anything). https://www.paragon-software.com/us/free/pm-express/#resource Edited Monday at 04:38 AM by Linguafoeda Quote Link to comment
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