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Disk Space discrepancy SMB vs command prompt

We have a Windows 2008 server core installation that has a 400GB disk attached to it. When viewing the free space of this disk via the command prompt it reports 35GB free. Computer management also reports 35GB free. When I view this disk as a…
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How can I merge unallocated space on Windows Server 2008?

After resizing a C: partition I'm left with two blocks of "unallocated space". However despite the fact that neither of these blocks is a partition (they're just blank space) Windows sees them as separate blocks. I cannot see any way to combine them…
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How to claim unallocated space on disk

On windows 2008 R1 server, I have a 1Tb disk that has about 400Gb at the end that's not used. I have the boot partition, then a logic volume, then the free space. I want to create a new simple volume (basic, I'm assuming) at the end, but it keeps…
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Disk Manager Reporting Foreign Disks

I have a server with an 8 drive eSATA enclosure attached. I have two volumes on the external controller: a RAID5 array that uses 6 of the drives and a RAID1 arrray that uses 2. The system is occasionally restarted due to the environment. I can't…
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Server 2008 R2 Disk Management Green Outline Extend C Drive

In the Server 2008 R2 disk management snap-in I have Disk 0 which has these partitions: boot partition - 71mb a Recovery partition 3gb OS (C:) 40gb DATAPART1 (D:) 150gb Free space 40gb Disk 0 is a basic disk (instead of a dynamic disk). So I would…
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Server 2008 Disk Management Hangs

So I have looked everywhere for the solution to this and have tried many things. There is one post on SE related to this and I tried the suggested answer but I am still having problems. We have a server running Server 2008 R2 Standard x64. I need…
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Light SES2 drive failure light from Linux?

With a SES2 capable backplane and SAS card, is it possible to light the drive failure light on a specific bay from Linux? If so, how?
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How Does Windows Number its Disks? Mine keep switching

How does Windows number its disks? By numbering, I mean the physical disks, which Disk Management calls Disk 0, Disk 1, Disk 2, etc. My C and D partition used to be on Disk 0 and my E partition was on Disk 1. Now, however, my C and D paritions are…
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Windows 2008 additional disk going offline with reboots on Amazon EC2

OK, so I took the stock Windows 2008 64-bit Amazon AMI and wanted to add a D: drive for page file space and crash dumps. I launched the instance with a second EBS volume attached as xvdf and went into Disk Management set it online, and added the…
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How can I set up a RAID 1 without losing my Windows install?

I know this sounds like a SuperUser question, but I would rather ask here first. The drives are identical Seagate SATA2 drives. They are 250GB each. Windows XP Pro SP3 is installed on one drive, and the other is now empty (updated). I do not own a…
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What are the weaknesses of software RAID1 in Windows 7 and Windows 2008?

I want to migrate current data from simple hard disk drives to RAID1 to reduce the risk of losing daily data in case of hard disk failure. Every PC I want to migrate have a RAID1 support, requiring to use BIOS. Now, I see that there is a feature in…
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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 the server name. I NEED to expand my secondary…
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Identifying a physical disk from its Windows device description

I have intermittent bad block errors in my Windows SBS 2003 system event log. The error description is The device, \Device\Harddisk4, has a bad block, and I would like to be able to authoritatively say which physical disk that is. Or in other…
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Disk space mismatch on OS X Server (Leopard)

My Nagios system sent me an alert to inform me that the disk space on one of the drives on our OS X server is very low. When I run df /Volumes/Apps/ I get /dev/disk0s3 117209520 114932472 2277048 99% /Volumes/Apps When I run du -c…
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Convert Spanned Dynamic disk to Basic Help needed

Here is my scenario; Windows 2008 server on a VM Two VM disks; Disk1 > OS >Basic Disk2> Data and an Installed Application.> Basic During the weekend, I was playing with this VM, I wanted to add some space to the Disk2. Created a new disk (disk3),…
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