GUID Partition Table (GPT)
GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk.
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Windows Server - how to shrink partition on GPT disk from the front?
I'm looking for a way to shrink a partition on a GPT disk from the front on production servers.
With diskpart it's only possible to shrink the space from the end.
Ideally while running
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ESXi management fails, refusing connections, after copying in the boot drive from a backup
I’m writing this after having found the solution myself, because it was such a strange “gotcha” it deserves to be documented.
Although I hit this issue while doing a restore, it’s possible this could come up in other cases of booting into another…
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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 not contain any system files or boot files, it is…
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bcdedit doesn't work in Windows PE when Applying/Deploying/Restoring an Image?
I captured an image and I'm trying to restore it to a different VM without using Sysprep since I'm actively using the vm server I want to clone and I don't want to have to set it back up again, I could but it would be a waste of time:
Started the…
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Creating a backup ignoring unallocated space with GPT table
I want to create a full disk backup of a linux installation (including gpt, bootloader).
The system is installed on a 128GB SSD but only ~32GB are used with partitions, the rest is unallocated space.
How can I backup this system without cloning the…
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Ubuntu VS Windows partitioning, 2TB limit
I have a server with a 3ware 9690sa-i8 raid card installed. I have configured a raid with a size of 12TB which i would like to use for Windows. It seems whenever the partition table is MSDOS the limit of a partiton is 2TB. Changing to the GPT…
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GPT Partition corrupt
I have a little bit of a story. I spilt hot chocolate on my lovely Lenovo Ultrabook and killed it. I fixed it and put a new keyboard in. Windows was running quite slowly so I went to do the Windows 8 reinstall because it was UEFI and it worked.…
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