Questions tagged [diskpart]
Diskpart is a scriptable Windows command-line tool which allows management of disk volumes including partitions and virtual disk (VHD/VHDX) files.
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Running diskpart from system in windows sever 2022 - shows no disks
I've inherited a system of VMs (AWS ec2) running on an older version of windows server. Due to software upgrades we need to also upgrade to windows server 2022.
One hang up I have is that the existing ...
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Can Windows Server 2022 read passed through SAS drives in a JBOD configuration?
I recently bought a simple RAID controller card (LSI-9210-8i), and flashed it to IT mode. I also bought a single SAS drive of 3TB. I formatted the drive in the LSI Card's BIOS, and have checked the ...
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Windows 10 safely delete recovery partition
One of our processing PCs uses Windows 10 Pro, and I am the one in the unfortunate position of trying to upgrade the capacity of its C:\ drive (SSD) from 1TB to 2TB.
I created an image backup using ...
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Mirrored volume in Windows performance - Storage Spaces vs diskpart performance
I'm currently exploring using Storage Spaces to create a mirrored volume. In benchmarking it against a mirrored volume created with diskpart, I notice that I'm getting twice the throughput on reads. I'...
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Robocopy of folder redirection folders caused the volume to fill from ~1.5TB to the full 14T, as a result I cannot access the volume anymore
I'd appreciate some help resolving this issue. I was using robocopy to copy the contents from one iSCSI volume to another - moving folder redirection contents from the old to the new location. There ...
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Cannot mount Win10 virtual disk (VHD) with no volumes - DISKPART fail
I'm attempting to mount a Windows Image Backup .vhdx file and give it a drive letter so that I can retrieve a file or two out of the backup. It has worked fine in the past, but now I cannot make it ...
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Windows Server 2019 - Disk size not maching the diskpart info
we'd like to get your opinion on this weird issue:
Environment
Windows Server 2019 VM running on top of an ESXi 7.1 Cluster
The storage subsystem is a compellent iSCSI array. The other windows VM are ...
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How to convert my hard disk PartitionStyle from GPT back to RAW in Windows 10
For testing purposes, I need my hard drive on Windows 10 machine to be in a RAW partition style format.
It is currently in the GPT partition style.
The hard drive is a secondary hard drive and does ...
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Completely remove virtual disks with diskpart (list volume still shows them)
I'm creating a lot of differencing disks for my project and deleting them after some time.
I use "detach vdisk" command, they disappear from disk management but they are not completely ...
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Does `diskpart clean` send a TRIM command?
If I have a full SSD and clean it with diskpart clean, will the SSD controller receive a TRIM command (assuming I'm running in AHCI mode)? This would be crucial for performance or even healthiness of ...
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How to create a EFI partition using PowerShell?
I would like to automate a script that creates an EFI partition.
Currently, one step is manual and requires to start DISKPART and execute these commands:
create partition efi size=100
format fs=...
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Cannot recover from Windows Server Backup after expanded volume
I am running a Windows Server 2012 r2 instance on Hyper-v, I set up Windows Server Backup to run every night to incrementally back up a large folder. The folder sits on the same Virtual Hard Disc as ...
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0xC03A001B error while trying to compact VHD
What can be the reason of such error? I tried to compact both via DISKPART and Optimize-Vhd commandlet.
Via DISKPART I get following error:
DISKPART> compact vdisk
DiskPart has encountered an ...
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Disk volume not extending
C: volume on a virtual disk within a Server 2008 R2 virtual machine won't extend correctly.
Under Disk Management, Disk 0 is showing 119.9 GB NTFS for the C: volume, however C: under Windows Explorer ...
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getting variables for partition size from diskpart in batch file
Im trying to execute part of a batch file only if a specific partition is at least a certain size. I found an example of diskpart being used in a batch file here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Copy EFI partition and BCD store to a second drive
I'm attempting to set up dynamic boot partition mirroring on GUID partition table (GPT) disks as part of making a bootable mirror of a Windows system drive.
I am following Microsoft's KB951985 but I ...
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iSCSI Volume shown as two partitions on disk manager and need to merge/extend
I've just created a LUN and Target on my NAS, the from windows server, used iSCSI initiator to mount it.
Disk appears in disk manager Disabled.
Using diskpart i remove readonly attrib and created ...
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Windows 2008 Unable to expend the disk to single drive
I'm try to expend two disk D and E but every time I do it convert the disk into spinner array disk.
How do I allocated the unallocated space?
Why do I have two partition with same size on Disk 1 and ...
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issue in increasing disk size in ubuntu guest vmware
Have followed link
I was trying to increase the size of my disk allocated to ubuntu guest in vmware below are the things i have already done
Increased max setting in vmware settings - Done
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Proper Partition Alignment
I'm trying to follow the advice from this TechNet article about partition alignment. Our San is an EMC, the disks are in a 4 disk raid 10. This services an I/O intensive application, 60:40 write:read.
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Windows Diskpart: How to select disk based on LUN ID
I have multiple LUNs attached to my Windows 2008 server from a SAN storage controller. Each LUN has a unique ID. However, it has no correlation to the disk number in the Windows. For example in the ...
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3TB RAID1 not detected in Hyper-V Core 2012
I'm creating a small server, but I have issues with one RAID config (RAID1-HOST-DATA).
As you can see in the image below, everything seems fine. My four physical disk are detected, and two RAID1 are ...
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Format disk with diskpart if not formatted
I'm trying to write a script to create and format a partition in Windows Server 2008R2.
Now, when disk 1 is selected, I need to format it, only if it is not formatted already. This is what I have ...
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setting the 'hidden' attribute on a partion from Linux (parted) isnt respected by Windows?
when I set the 'hidden' flag on a GPT partition it's not respected by Windows 8.1 (Windows attempts to mound, throws UI, etc). However if I set the 'hidden' flag from diskpart.exe it is respected - ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 server not booting
It's a Hyper-V machine that runs the DC for my lab environment. Had a power failure that shut down my server and all other machines come up fine except this lone DC. It boots up straight to Recovery.
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Resizing partition with DiskPart using desired and minimum options is unsuccessful
I have a few systems I want to shrink the primary (and only) partition to about half of the disk and then create a new partition in the newly available space. The disks are 500GB. I want to script it, ...
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Is there any way to fix a corrupted LDM database?
TL;DR:
Are there any tools/approaches to diagnosing and fixing LDM
(Logical Disk Manager) metadata structures without recreating
from scratch?
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I have two SSD drives set up ...
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what's the difference between a Volume and a Partition in Windows 7 diskpart [closed]
I was trying to follow the Intel guide for setting up iRST (Intel Rapid Start Technology) on my new laptop. The Intel manual says you need to create a *Volume that is as big or bigger than your ...
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Is it possible to convert a basic disk to dynamic disk without losing data in Server 2008?
I am not able to extend partition in windows server 2008. We have two different partitions which we want to join and make one partition. I came to know that basic disks have limitation of 2 TB each ...
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Diskpart breaking drive letters after powershell script is run
I built a script that mounts (attach) a VHD using Diskpart, cleans out some system files and then unmounts (detach) it. It uses a foreach loop and is suppose to clean multiple VHD using the same drive ...
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Using Diskpart in a PowerShell script won't allow script to reuse drive letter
I built a script that mounts (attach) a VHD using Diskpart, cleans out some system files and then unmounts (detach) it. It uses a foreach loop and is suppose to clean multiple VHD using the same ...
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Device imaging process Won't work first time
I'm having an issue regarding a disk imaging process.
To get the machine into it's initial state, I first run a simple DISKPART CLEAN, and then restart the machine.
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Diskpart
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Server 2008 R2 - Boot disk RAID 1 - migrate to larger disk
My group inherited several 2008 R2 servers with single 70GB RAID 1 boot/system disks.
No other disks in the servers.
We need larger boot / system disk.
Plan is :
to replace one disk with new 500 ...
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Cannot reactivate RAID-5 volume: The size of the plex member is invalid
We had a 3-drive Windows Server 2008 R2 RAID-5 fail (operating in redundancy mode):
WDC 1 TB
WDC 1 TB
WDC 1 TB
We removed the failed hard drive, and put a WDC 1 TB drive (that we had standing by) ...
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Resizing a System Partition Windows Server 2003 VM (Getting GParted Error)
I am getting an error while trying to resize System Partition for Windows 2003 Server (this is a VM on a Hyper-v Windows Server 2008) using GParted Live CD ISO.
Followed this tutorial:
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command line for getting information about status of disk?
Here is the scenario,
I have Windows Server 2003 and 2008 which is connected LUNs. I wanted to get status of the disk if disks are online or offline using command line.
I'm trying to execute ...
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How to increase partition size for FAT32 volume on VHD?
I have VHD file attached as a disk (Disk 2 on screenshot below). It has only 1 partition formatted in FAT32 (so Linux clients can write something there). It got full, so I want to extend it. I used ...
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What's difference between online/offline mounting/unmounting a disk?
Can someone explain the difference between:
online and mount
offline and unmount
I know mount and unmount are not windows commands btw, I just wanna know the difference. Is mounting/dismounting a ...
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WinPE diskpart can't attach vdisk
I created WinPE 3.0 and didn't modify it in any way. I want to attach a vdisk (.vhd file) while running WinPE but I can't attach it, no error is shown, no indication that diskpart didn't attach it, it ...
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Windows 2008 R2: can't extend C drive, mystery partitions
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 ...
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FreeBSD disk parts with no mounting. How does this work?
I'm using a VPS service. I installed FreeBSD 8.1, and now configuring.
And today, I found really wired thing.
This is my disklabel editor screen from sysinstall.
FreeBSD ...
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Recover NTFS filesystem after DISKPART CLEAN
I managed to run the CLEAN command in DISKPART on the wrong disk (disk 1 instead of disk 3 in LIST DISK). Now it shows up as a "Healthy (Primary Partition)". If I assign a drive letter to the ...
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Dell MD3000 - Resizing a virtual disk
I've replaced some drives to our MD3000 with bigger ones.
These currently store database files used in a SQL Server 2005 cluster running on Windows Server 2003.
Now, we replaced the smaller hard ...
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Resizing volume with DiskPart unsuccessful, while there's enough free space
I have a physical disk with two partitions, an old OS partition (with MBR) of 296GB and a RECOVERY partition of 2048MB (a default DELL recovery partition), both are not in use. I have successfully ...
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Merge differencing and parent vhd into new vhd
Using DISKPART and the "VDISK MERGE" option, is it possible to specify that you want to keep the existing child/parent disks and do a merge into a new vhd file? That is; I still want to keep my ...
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disk management/diskpart on windows server 2008 hangs
I am having an issue on my Windows Server 2008 "Sql Server".
When I access Disk Management, the UI hangs on "Loading disk configuration information"
When I run diskpart it does nothing after showing ...
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How long should diskpart take?
I am using diskpart to extend a drive that is actually a VHD. I've already extended the VHD. It's on Windows 2003 and the C drive doesn't contain the swap file and the available space is contiguous. ...
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GUI version of diskpart.exe or equivalent on Windows 2003 Server
I have a 95% OS X server shop..and just a handful of Windows servers I occasionally have to mess with... I need to resize some disks on a Windows 2003 box, and am looking for the equivalent of OS X's ...
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remove volume on missing dynamic disk
I had 2 drives in my Server 2003 PDC
1 of the drives went bad and was replaced. Now i show the working drive, the new drive and a missing disk. I am trying to delete the missing disk but am not able ...
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Resizing Partitions/Volumes on Dynamic Disks (Windows Server 2003)
What is the best way to resize partitions on a server with a Dynamic Disk? I have 4 volumes in what appears to be 2 partitions. I have ghosted each of these volumes to separate image files. I will ...
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