Windows 2008 R2: can't extend C drive, mystery partitions
- by wfaulk
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running under VMware ESX 4.0.0. I have reallocated disk space to it in order to extend the C drive, but Disk Management has "Extend Volume" greyed out. DISKPART shows more partitions than Disk Management shows, including one after the volume I'm trying to extend, which would explain why Disk Management isn't allowing the extension.
Disk Management shows:
System Reserved / 100MB NTFS / Healthy (System)
(C:) / 39.39 GB NTFS / Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
10.00 GB / Unallocated
DISKPART shows:
Partition 1 Dynamic Data 992 KB 31 KB
Partition 2 Dynamic Data 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 3 Dynamic Data 39 GB 101 MB
Partition 4 Dynamic Data 1024 KB 39 GB
My question at this point is: what the heck are partitions 1 and 4, where did they come from, why doesn't Disk Management show them, and, most importantly, can I delete partition 4 in order to extend partition 3?
