Tag: Diskpart

How to use Diskpart to increase/extend disk space

Posted on by Emmanuel

On many occasions I have received a request to extend/increase disk space for some servers. In Windows 2008 it is pretty straightforward and can be done through the disk management GUI from Windows 2003 down, this can only be done by using third party utilities and Microsoft Diskpart. I always use Diskpart. Diskpart is a […]

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How to convert MBR to GPT

Posted on by Emmanuel

Recently I was configuring disks for SQL and the plan was to use GPT rather than MBR. For any hard drive over 2TB, we need to use GPT partition because the number of partitions on a GPT disk is not constrained by temporary schemes, such as container partitions as defined by the MBR Extended Boot […]

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