{"id":342,"date":"2010-05-14T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=342"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:39:02","slug":"fsextend-exe-diskpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2010\/05\/fsextend-exe-diskpart\/","title":{"rendered":"FSEXTEND.EXE (Diskpart)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After performing the &#8220;diskpart extend&#8221; command to merge two partitions the new partition will display in disk management however will not show the full capacity. This is a known problem if the command was run without sufficient system resources.<br \/>\nThe partition size is extended, but the file system remains the original size when you extend an NTFS volume&#8221; &#8211; Unfortunately Microsoft have pulled the original &#8220;KB832316&#8221; (As of 2021) so there is limited information available. There are some references for diskpart here: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/325590\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB325590<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following method of fixing this with the diskpart tool may work for some (but not others)<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ndiskpart\r\nlist volume\r\nselect volume X\r\nextend filesystem\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If like me you received the following error <em><strong>&#8220;Diskpart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> then there is a 99% this method <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will not<\/span> work, in this case you can use the <strong>FSEXTEND.EXE<\/strong> tool, after burning around the net and looking at the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/OS\/Microsoft_Operating_Systems\/Server\/2003_Server\/Q_21835919.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EE article<\/a> it seems that getting hold of the tool is another problem. I resolved this by 45minutes of talking to Microsoft and getting a case open&#8230; but to avoid this I&#8217;ve uploaded the tool&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trying to get FSEXTEND.EXE ? <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get it here:&nbsp;<\/strong><a title=\"FSEXTEND\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/glScd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FSEXTEND<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Use:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FSExtend tool really is a &#8220;one trick pony&#8221; if you try to get the switches required by the program it will simply return with &#8220;usage: fsextend.exe driveLetter&#8221; so you just need to perform the following:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nDISKPART&gt; select volume 1\r\nDISKPART&gt; extend filesystem\r\nDiskPart successfully extended the file system on the volume.\r\nDISKPART&gt; exit\r\nLeaving DiskPart...\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After performing the &#8220;diskpart extend&#8221; command to merge two partitions the new partition will display in disk management however will not show the full capacity. This is a known problem if the command was run without sufficient system resources. The partition size is extended, but the file system remains the original size when you extend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-windows-server-2003","category-windows-server-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-5w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}