Online storage (or cloud storage?)

Well, you might have heard Google will be releasing their Google Drive. I have just read on the news that they planned to give out 5gb storage size for free and if need more, premium one with 100GB with a fee. If 5GB is already huge to you or you have not even bothered with online storage, then you might want to skip this. But for me, I am using online storage as a backup on my stuff (non-confidential, purely for safekeeping). I have been using Microsoft’s SkyDrive and it’s been serving me well. Upon knowing Google is to launch Google Drive, well that excites me. However, with the cap limit of 5GB on the size (not that I have utilized that size) but it turns me down alittle (since GMail is constantly expanding its’ size limit!).

And with this news in mind, I could not recall if SkyDrive impose a limit (didn’t bother to check previously). Since now there’s an alternative out there for me to choose, I thought why not to compare which would offers me better.

And while browsing through SkyDrive page for the size limit, something caught me. They are currently giving out free upgrade, from 7GB to 25GB, of free usage. Hey, that’s awesome (thinking to myself). If anyone of you who are using SkyDrive as your online storage, you might probably want to opt for it and do an upgrade given it’s free now! I’m not sure how long this “free upgrade” will last, or if it will be a permanent upgrade impose to those existing user, but why wait and take risk if you could act now. I’ve upgraded my SkyDrive size to 25GB and i’ll wait for an official launching of Google Drive to see if they will offer a bigger size online storage

P/S: Skydrive existing storage size is 25GB. Apparently they are downgrading their offers instead of offering an upgrade from 7GB to 25GB. I guess they wants to retain their loyal user whom are aware of the size offered initially and not to create “chaotic” for the downgrade.

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• how can i my skydrive size bigger

Written by admin on April 24th, 2012 with no comments.
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Expanding VMware hard disk size

I thought I have posted this previously. Now I hit this similar issue and requires the same command but could not find back my notes. Got to search around to refresh my memory. I’ll list them here now so anyone that needs it can use it:

*Make sure you have removed/commited all snapshots taken before proceeding.

1. vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20Gb “file location.vmdk”
*20Gb here refers to actual size of virtual disk that you want
2. Wait for the growing progress to complete
3. Boot up virtual machine
4. Execute diskpart on run (can be downloadable http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23711).
5. Run List Disk to see Disks and esure there is free space
6. Run Select Disk for that Disk
7. Run List Volume to see Volume
8. Run Select Volume to Select Volume
9. Type Extend and got Success Message
10. Check disk size, it should be extended.

I kept a copy of diskpart on my local server: diskpart_setup. If you happened to face error of “DiskPart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending. “, I’ll suggest you to get the diskpart from microsoft which is listed on step 4. If the link expired or file has been removed, you could get the copy I made on my local webhost.

Keywords:

• diskpart failed to extend the volume in virtual pc

Written by admin on March 24th, 2012 with no comments.
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