Friday, August 30, 2013

Expand VHD - Increase Capacity of Virtual Hard disk

well, i was stuck with 25 GB of in my virtual hard disk and started my favorite computer operation "Google" to find solution and surprisingly  found one pretty quickly

Here is goes.

Run below command sequentially in command prompt

diskpart                                    [open command prompt and type  this command]
Select vdisk file="Path of VHD"
list vdisk
expand vdisk maximum=40000                    [Size in MB]
attach vdisk
list disk
Online Disk
list volume
select volume                         [Select disk volume to be exteded]
extend
List Volume
detach vdisk
exit

Gray Failures: What is it and how to detect one?

If you are reading this article , i guess you are curious to know about gray failures and different methods to detect gray failures.  Hopefu...