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Recently, Microsoft Support released an update for Windows Server 2003 SP2 that allows Chkdsk.exe tool compact the NTFS security descriptor stream (a.k.a. $secure file). Depending on the file system usage, this descriptor can consume a lot of disk space.
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Shrinking volumes is a cool feature of Windows Vista, but we’re starting to see an interesting side effect—the inability to create a new partition in the newly created unallocated space. Customers who face this problem almost always have a new computer
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Savvy beta testers have noticed that the option to create an extended partition is no longer available in Disk Management in Windows Vista. Instead, the only option is New Simple Volume . The type of volume this command creates depends on the number of
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Chat Topic: Disk and Volume Management Date: Friday, August 18, 2006 Wendy [MSFT] (Moderator): Thank you for joining today’s chat with the Disk and Volume Management Team. We will begin the chat in 7 minutes. Feel free to start queuing up questions! Wendy
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You can view it here: Disk and Volume Management chat trancript Enjoy! --Jill
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Our very own Shobana Balakrishnan, a program manager on our Windows Longhorn Server team, takes you through the server roadmap and demonstrates Windows Server 2003 R2. Think you know everything about Windows Server? You might be surprised by the innovations
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Looks like we've published a whitepaper on how Microsoft's own IT department uses Diskpart. Here's the summary: The Microsoft IT group regularly uses the Diskpart.exe utility to dynamically increase disk volume capacity on servers running Microsoft® Windows
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