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W365 Disk partitioning
Dear All,
I tried some disk partitioning on a Windows 365 machine. I shrunk the default C: drive that came with W365 machine after provisioning and created successfully another drive (named it 😧 drive). I have a couple of questions here:
1. I have found that my D drive doesn't show on "My PC" of this Windows 365 Cloud PC, but it is accessible and works fine, I can save files there.
Could you please help clarify if this is intentionally not shown on My PC? (only c drive with used and remaining space after partitioning is visible at the moment.)
2. Can I manage to do disk partition for multiple Windows 365 Cloud PCs centrally from endpoint management portal or somewhere?
Note: I tested this on Windows 365 Business Edition but these questions should cover Enterprise edition as well.
Thank you very much
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Nearly four years later, and this is still an issue. I (and presumably Eric and many more people out there) can mount a secondary partition as any drive letter except D. No good answer for this aside from "WTH do you need a secondary partition?" It shouldn't really matter, but for me, I have a W365 PC that serves as a dev machine. My dev files, local repos, etc. live on D. System, and application files live on C. Logs are on D as well. The system is architected this way so file growth does not cannibalize my primary partition. This is a fundamental PC architecture, thus, the ability to actually name a partition and use it should also be available. So, does anyone have an answer to this question?
- EricOrman
Microsoft
Could you help us understand what problem you are trying to solve by partitioning the disk?Hello EricOrman ,
Here are the queries:
1. After partitioning, why a new drive doesn't show on "My PC" of W365 cloud pc? Is this hidden by design?
For example, After partitioning, I have another disk, D drive, it accessible but it is not shown on My PC.
2. Can we do disk partition centrally (somewhere) for multiple Cloud PCs at the same time? If that is the case, what kind of tool to perform this.
Thanks
- EricOrmanSorry, I'm still not understanding why there is a desire to partition, we understand it doesn't work but that is not what we are trying to understand. We'd like to know why there is a desire to partition, for example is it because certain apps require it or for other reasons? Its unusual anymore to partition a drive and so we'd like to learn and know more.
