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Disk Resizing on Azure Issue

Martin Hughes 1 Reputation point
2022-10-11T13:36:42.733+00:00

Hi,

We have a Microsoft Azure VM and I have re-sized a data disk via the Azure portal.

I can see the re-size has been completed however when I go onto the VM via RDP, the space shows as unallocated and won't allow me to increase the size of this drive. When I try to increase via disk management, the option is greyed out.

Can someone please advise on where I have gone wrong, and how to increase this?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Jackson Martins 10,141 Reputation points MVP
    2022-10-11T13:40:28.627+00:00

    Hi @Martin Hughes

    You need to extend on operation system too, if you are using windows you need to go to disk manager and expand

    Or run: diskmgmt.msc

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    You will see unallocated space, for more infos:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/expand-os-disk

    If you are trying to expand the OS disk, and it is more than 2TB, you will need to convert the partition to GPT

    Get in touch if you need more help with this issue.

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