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I am using diskpart to extend a drive that is actually a VHD. I've already extended the VHD. It's on Windows 2003 and the C drive doesn't contain the swap file and the available space is contiguous. However didn't see the Note about the Resource Kit diskpart for download is not for Windows 2003. So…
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I'm trying to get iRST working on a SSD I installed in my lenovo u410.
As part of that process, I created a hibernation partition and was fiddling around with RAID/AHCI settings. I managed to make my computer unbootable. No sweat, I just restored it with Lenovo's 1 key system.
Now, however, I can't…
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I have an existing XP installation on a 160GB disk, with about 90 GB free.
I'm trying to install Win7 on the same HDD, following directions from here.
The question is: How long should it take to run the "shrink" command, given the above parameters? How much space will that free up for Win7?
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I have a USB flash drive, which I may have mucked up, so I used DISKPART's CLEAN to clean it up. I created a simple volume, and tried to format it. (This is all using Windows' disk management.) I was told The system cannot find the file specified.
So I tried using DISKPART (as an admin):
DISKPART…
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I built a script that mounts (attach) a VHD using Diskpart, cleans out some system files and then unmounts (detach) it. It uses a foreach loop and is suppose to clean multiple VHD using the same drive letter. However, after the 1st VHD it fails. I also noticed that when I try to manually attach…
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