Virtual hard drives from physical using disk2vhd tool and partitions question

hi all

i have done following using disk2vhd tool. @ end of though not appear have virtual hard drives quite expected. understand why, can tidy question? so, i've done...

i have: 1 physical server. raid5. appears 1 disk windows. 2 partitions. c: 56 gb , d: 502 gb.

i ran disk2vhd create vhds of these partitions. logic said me @ time create vhd each partition can move them independently on storage if needed. have 2 .vhd files, 1 of c: drive , 1 of d: drive.

i have formatted , reinstalled same physical server windows 2008 r2 , installed hyper-v role.

i've copied vhd files made newly installed server , set virtual machine 2 hard disks. 1 each file. 1 virtual disk c: , 1 d: (as said, can see why has happened has happened, before weren't 2 different disks, one! wasn't expecting behaviour).

upon booting virtual machine of previous installation , trying access d: gave me 'do want format it?' type message. hell no!

i've gone in computer management > disk management see what's happening.

so it's got 2 hard disks both partitioned original disk layout of server before formatted , reinstalled! disk management shows:
disk 0 - c: 56 gb ntfs - d: 502 gb raw
disk 1 - 56 gb raw - 502 gb ntfs

i see has done. have done wrong. wrong seperate them in 2 virtual hard drive files this?

is there safe way of getting rid of raw partitions on each drive (ok, can delete them, easy) resize disks there isn't empty space?

if don't 'tidy up' going effect performance or virtual hard drives have waste 'marked' in them? appreciate files big need to hold data required, not 502gb file 502gb drive.

i'd tidy i'm sure confuse hell out of else 1 day.

thank you!

hi,

 

according description “it create 1 vhd each disk on selected volumes reside” in disk2vhd download page, seems expected behavior.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415

 

by way, can delete raw disk , resize used partition.

 

in addition, if want perform further research, recommended initial thread in following community can qualified pool of response. understanding.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb469929

 

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vincent hu

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Windows Server  >  Hyper-V