I have a Windows Server 2003 instance which was once running on physical hardware but now runs on vmware esxi. Disk 0 was once a physical RAID, but is now a vmware virtual hd with a primary partition for the C drive and a second logical drive for the E drive.
Enlarging the VMWare virtual disk is easy, but I'm having trouble extending the E drive. Diskpart.exe won't let me use the "extend" command as it is a logical drive.
I'd rather avoid third party stuff like partition magic as it is an important server and I don't want to risk anything strange happening.
Is there an easy way to move a logical drive to a physical drive?
You could add an additional virtual disk, mount and format it. Start the server in safe mode and run
robocopywith the/mirswitch to mirror the contents between the two drives. Then, in diskmgmt.msc unmount the logical drive and change the letter of the new drive to E: and reboot. If everything works fine, then you can delete the logical partition and either shrink the virtual disk or extend the C: partition.Another approach would be to simply V2V the server, install converter on the server and convert each partition to it's own physical disk.