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Author:	Nicholas	Created:	11/15/2009 12:16 PM
Hard to find solutions for computer issues that I've run into. It's truly comical when you google a problem that you're certain that you've solved before, only to find the first link is your own site. Hope this helps others too.

Disk Management Extend Fails “The parameter is incorrect.”

By Nicholas Schoonover on 12/19/2009 3:05 PM

I have a couple of cluster nodes that I failed to size the C: drive adequately and began to run out of disk space. No problem! They’re all virtual machines, so I just need to expand the disks and away I go! Well, I’ve run into this situation several times since my lab has a lot of machines that I’ve upgraded over the years and while 15 - 25 GB volumes were fine prior to Windows 2008, it just doesn’t get it now and I like to use 40 GB volumes. That said, I’ve seen several cases where the virtual disks grow correctly and show up in the OS correctly, but when you try and use the Windows 2008 disk extend feature then you get this error from Logical Disk Manager, “The parameter is incorrect.”

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AD DCPromo "A delegation for this DNS server cannot be created"...

By Nicholas Schoonover on 11/15/2009 12:42 PM

I ran into this issue today when finally rebuilding my lab DC01.Contoso.com and using DCPromo. This warning pops up and since I had crippling DNS issues in the past (Thanks again Mike D!), I got really nervous.

Solution: It seems that this message can be safely ignored in my case because according to the article that I finally dug up (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/38ccac86-375c-4402-9bfc-660ce5c0a606),...

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