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Why resize/extend C drive VMware Server?

VMware is the most popular Virtual Machine software for now. It is easy to use and works like a physical computer. The most common problem of VMware is related to disk partition space. For example, after a period of time, you may find the system C drive running out space, so you have to resize/extend C drive VMware Server. To most of the people, it is extremely hard to extend C drive on VMware Server.

Common VMware Server disk partition space problem

1. As I mentioned above, the system C drive runs out of space and you need to resize or expand VMware Server partitions.
2. C drive and the entire virtual disk is low disk space, so you cannot extend C drive VMware Server by resizing other data partitions.
3. Though VMware is virtual machine, it will use the physical partition space. When there is no free space on this physical partition, what will you do? Delete this partition including the VMware Server? No, no one wants to do this, in this article, I’ll tell the easy method – extend this partition directly without data loss.
In the next paragraphs, I’ll tell you how to solve these problems one by one.

How to extend C drive VMware Server?

Step 1: Install Partition Wizard in your VMware Server and launch it, right-click the data partition and select “Move/Resize” to shrink this partition.

In the pop up window, drag the left borderline of this data partition rightwards.

After step 1, there will be Unallocated space created behind the system partition.

Step 2: Right-click the system C drive and select “Move/Resize”. In the pop up window, drag the right borderline rightwards.

Now the system partition has been extended, click “Apply”.

How to extend C drive and entire disk space?

As I mentioned above, if there is no free space in other data partition, you cannot extend C drive by shrinking the data partition, you need to extend the entire virtual disk space firstly. After that, you will get Unallocated space to extend C drive.
Steps to extend entire hard disk:

Step1: Open up Run dialogue from the start menu (Start -> Run) or hold down the Windows key and press R. Type “cmd” and hit enter to open up the Command Prompt.
Step2: Run VMware disk manager tool, the format is like this: “AA\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe” –x BB.GB(MB) “CC\DD.VMDK”.
AA: The absolute path of vmware-vdiskmanager.exe
BB: What size you want to extend the VMware virtual disk to
CC: The absolute path of the virtual disk you want to extend
DD: The name of the virtual disk want to extend

Input the command and press enter to proceed, after that, the virtual disk will be extended and there will be “BB.GB(MB) Unallocated space at the end of the virtual disk.

Step3: Follow the steps of “How to extend C drive VMware Server?” and the second problem could be solved.

To solve the third problem, it is very easy, too. Just install Partition Wizard on the physical computer and resize the partitions.

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Although I usually post on topics related to business strategy or marketing, a few weeks back I posted an article about my experience of getting hacked and a related tutorial on how I went about recovering from my Joomla site hack.

Apparently I wasn’t alone.  In the ensuing weeks, it has become my most visited post and has encouraged more people to sign up for my feed than any other article I have written.

That got me thinking about the power of trends and how I might go about using what people are already searching for to grab peoples attention.

Paris and Britney can help you…maybe

This article is not about recovering from your site getting hacked.  Instead is about trends, how to find out what they are, and how to take advantage of them to help drive visitors to your site.

To track what is hot (no Paris pun intended), I usually use Google Trends.
http://www.google.com/trends

This is a free service and allows you to compare different search terms for relative search volume, where these searches come from, and for more popular terms, they also link relevant news articles to search volume peaks.

I have never been a trend marketer

It’s not that I can’t or that I find it morally offensive.  The simple fact is that I have never been particularly hip, trendy, or ahead of the curve on the newest fad.  I tend to stick to long term marketing strategies with tried and true metric analysis.  My method is similar to how I invest.  I don’t day trade and I prefer to plan on the 10% long-term average rather than looking at my portfolio every day (Thank god since my balance is in the crapper over the last year)  It’s not sexy, it’s not hip, but it has worked in every business I have run and made me a millionaire in the process.  That’s cool enough in my book.

But I also realize that blogging is a new game. Especially for me.  I have only been doing this for a few months, so I am also in the experimentation stage. I am starting to understand that there may be real marketing value in occasionally chasing after the shiny new firetruck to roll down the street.

Here is how I use trends to drive traffic:

OK. My own stats prove that waaaay more people are searching for help on recovering for a site hack than they are for advice on how to build a solid marketing strategy.  I get it.  I’m sad, but I get it. So, assuming I am going to hop on the trend band wagon, how do I decide what trend to follow, and how do I incorporate it into my area of expertise?

Here is what I did:

I know my site got hacked.

I know that people are interested in the topic

I know that I have sites that use both Joomla! And WordPress

I know that both types of sites have similar weaknesses

So I pulled out my trusty google trend search and compared the search volume for “wordpress hack” and “joomla hack”  What I found was that Joomla was searched a bit more often and there seemed to be a spike back in Q3 of 2008.  Because there was not much news coverage on the events, there were no links tied to the spikes, but if you search some other topics: For example Bush vs Obama, you will see that there are usually specific events tied to peaks and valleys.

So how does this help me?

Well for starters, it lets me know that Joomla seems to be searched for a little bit more often than WordPress, especially in Q3 of ’08 for some reason. At that point, I might want to try to dig into the details further by seeing what actually happened during that time period.

What I was hoping to see was a huge difference in popularity which would give me a clear cut direction on which topic to focus on.

For example: In the case below, if I wanted to find some way to incorporate a train-wreck whore into my article, the choice is pretty clear.  Paris is the slut of choice.

 
So going back to my Joomla Hack Vs WordPress Hack, my plan is to create a tutorial for BOTH  now that I have this information.  Since there is no clear cut winner, but both have a decent amount of search traffic, I might as well proceed with a tutorial that can help visitors deal with the pain in the ass of a hack on either platform.

The second thing I plan to do is what you are reading right now.  That is – write an article in my area of expertise that ties in poplar search terms with my content. Now there is the danger of this article being completely irrelevant to those searching, and that is a real risk.  But the relative small amount of time it takes to create an article, and my own results proving that people will sign up for my marketing and strategy feed based on a technical tutorial seem to be proving me wrong.   My stats will ultimately prove this one way or another.

Isn’t this another “Punch the Monkey” banner?

In case you haven’t seen it 10 million times already, the “punch the monkey” banner is a slick and clever banner ad featuring a monkey that scrolls back and forth and you have to use your mouse to “punch” it with a giant boxing glove.  This click then takes you to whatever website the banner is pointed to.  This banner has been used on everything from dating sites to mortgage brokers.  Granted the click through rate is HUGE (everybody loves to punch a monkey apparently) but there is usually zero relevance to the final site and whatever goal the site owner had for your visit is rarely fulfilled. (Would you submit a mortgage application from this banner?) Granted some miniscule percentage of the population may be looking to refinance their home at the time, but chances are, most clicks are wasted.

The key to using trends to help boost your marketing is to actually offer something related to the hot keyword.  In my example, I DO have content on my site that teaches someone how to recover from a site attack.  In addition, many of the people suffering from the same attacks I had are also small business owners, bloggers, and marketing folks that could benefit from seemingly unrelated content on my site.

As a funny closing note, I also have proof that complete irrelevance will NOT boost sign-ups.  It goes like this:  When I first started my blog I wrote an article called  “The Jennifer Lopez Model vs. the Dolly Parton Model vs. the Kim Kardashian Model.”  At that point I wasn’t concerned at all about driving traffic to my site and in no way was trying to use those name searches to drive visitors to my site.  The goal was simply to be clever (The article is about different marketing approaches…big back end, big front end, big front and back end)  I still think it’s funny, but that’s me.

Anyway, lots of people enjoyed the article, but I can tell you that it’s also the highest abandon rate page on the entire site. That tells me that many of the visitors were in no way interested in what I had to say..and rightfully so.

The key is relevance. You CAN make popular search terms relevant to your content. You CAN make strategic decisions based on trend results. You just need to be smart about how you do it.

As always, I’d love to hear what you think or comments on your own experiences using trends as a diving board.  I’m usually pretty solid in my ideas on what works, but in this case, I’m just throwing crap on the wall to see what sticks.  I’ve been proven wrong plenty of times before. I have no issues with it happening again.

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It’s a fact: Google has been the most visited web site in the past couple of years, and its popularity is not going to wane anytime soon. For as long as the Internet exists, so will Google, because it is the number one search-oriented web site that offers more than just information. Aside from having an e-mail service, Google AdWords is a division of the well-known search engine that is slowly becoming popular in its own right. This is because Google AdWords has services that are so efficient that it will drive prospects right to your inbox!

What better way to advertise your company than to make an ad of it show up in the most popular web site on the world wide web? By paying a fee and essentially buying adspace on Google AdWords, you can type up your own ads and choose the keywords that will cause your website to show up on the side of the screen. The system works in the way that your ad has a good chance of reappearing when someone types in those specific keywords in the Google search bar. Aside from getting to market your web site and products or services, you will be able to attract hordes of customers by making your company more well-known. Better yet, Google will even help you make your own website if you haven’t already.

An advantage to using Google AdWords is that you will only pay if people click your ads. This way, no single cent of yours is wasted trying to drive prospects right to your inbox. Instead, you will be getting your money’s worth as well as a big opportunity to showcase your company for what it is. You can decide how much you will pay to Google AdWords by choosing a specific budget. The minimum cost per click is usually only $0.01, depending on the quality of keywords. What a bargain! You can even have your office location placed on Google Maps in order to, literally, be put on the map. Google AdWords provides all of these services for very low prices.

Anyone searching for specific information may happen to be curious about a product or service your company might be offering. By inputting those magic keywords that you have chosen, the customer has a chance of seeing your ad pop up among others in the Google search engine. Curious onlookers will be tempted to click on the link in your ad, especially if your slogan is eyecatching. With one click, you could be making a great sale, bringing more attention to your flourishing business.

Google AdWords has resulted in some of the most inspiring business stories out there. Many companies have admitted to crediting the service for their newfound successes. Businesses have confessed about their site traffic increasing exponentially after applying for adspace, and have gone from local to global in a short amount of time. Because of their easier accessibility, certain companies have experienced up to a fifty perfect increase in sales alone. Become one of these success stories today!

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It’s a fact: Google has been the most visited web site in the past couple of years, and its popularity is not going to wane anytime soon. For as long as the Internet exists, so will Google, because it is the number one search-oriented web site that offers more than just information. Aside from having an e-mail service, Google AdWords is a division of the well-known search engine that is slowly becoming popular in its own right. This is because Google AdWords has services that are so efficient that it will drive prospects right to your inbox!

What better way to advertise your company than to make an ad of it show up in the most popular web site on the world wide web? By paying a fee and essentially buying adspace on Google AdWords, you can type up your own ads and choose the keywords that will cause your website to show up on the side of the screen. The system works in the way that your ad has a good chance of reappearing when someone types in those specific keywords in the Google search bar. Aside from getting to market your web site and products or services, you will be able to attract hordes of customers by making your company more well-known. Better yet, Google will even help you make your own website if you haven’t already.

An advantage to using Google AdWords is that you will only pay if people click your ads. This way, no single cent of yours is wasted trying to drive prospects right to your inbox. Instead, you will be getting your money’s worth as well as a big opportunity to showcase your company for what it is. You can decide how much you will pay to Google AdWords by choosing a specific budget. The minimum cost per click is usually only $0.01, depending on the quality of keywords. What a bargain! You can even have your office location placed on Google Maps in order to, literally, be put on the map. Google AdWords provides all of these services for very low prices.

Anyone searching for specific information may happen to be curious about a product or service your company might be offering. By inputting those magic keywords that you have chosen, the customer has a chance of seeing your ad pop up among others in the Google search engine. Curious onlookers will be tempted to click on the link in your ad, especially if your slogan is eyecatching. With one click, you could be making a great sale, bringing more attention to your flourishing business.

Google AdWords has resulted in some of the most inspiring business stories out there. Many companies have admitted to crediting the service for their newfound successes. Businesses have confessed about their site traffic increasing exponentially after applying for adspace, and have gone from local to global in a short amount of time. Because of their easier accessibility, certain companies have experienced up to a fifty perfect increase in sales alone. Become one of these success stories today!

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Hard drive data recovery needs to be mastered properly since you will most likely need it once you lose important hard drive data. Most of the time, viruses or worms can destroy these data as well as many other factors such as wear and tear through time and conflicting software. Saving a file does not mean it is already safe since accidents always happen.

There are many kinds of loss of data. One can lose data through simple logical problems such as deleting accidentally or software malfunction. There are however, some good ways of preventing as well as recovering data. One of the most common and basic ways is through the backing up of data.

If the data is lost from the hard drive, here is what you should do. You should stop saving any more data in that drive space. One should first safely assess what kind of problem affected your computer then fix it. Saving more data is bad because deleted data does not really get deleted. The computer only writes over these data once you save anything else. So before that happens, you should try to retrieve it.

You should first boot your computer using the OS disk in order to try data recovery through the hard drive. After that, you can either use the chkdsk, testdsk, or fdsk command prompt that will help scan the hard drive. Most of the time, this will help you recover the data you have lost through corruption. The commands above should be used in a Windows OS recovery console.

There is also such a thing as FINDNTS which is a nifty freeware that will help you recover data. This is just a free software that is centered on NTFS recovery (meaning it gets back NT files. One could also boot from this if the Windows OS is not working. You won’t even have to reformat)

Chkds as well as testdsk are both needed for hard drive information recovery. These simple tools retrieve the lost FAT as well as NTFS files. Basically, they find, retrieve, then fix the partition on the hard drive then reinstate boot sections. Usually, people would just reformat and get things over with. However these commands can help you boot and then fix the problem even if the OS is inaccessible.

Those stated above can manage loss from deletion yet it is also possible for one to get back files that might have been accidentally deleted. And what’s more, these are mostly free software you can find in the net.

So there you have it. Losing those all important files or data is not the end of the world. There are measures to retrieve them and there are measures to back them up in order to prevent loss. Just learn these basic hard drive data recovery tips and you should be fine.

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