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As you can see in the attached screenshot, the disk management reports an incorrect disk size. However, the disk properties window reports the correct disk size.

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As a result I cannot upgrade my Windows 2008 server because the windows installer complains that there is not enough disk space available.

This Windows server 2008 runs inside a VMware virtual machine.

How can I fix this?

EDIT 1: Diskpart info enter image description here

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  • What does diskpart report the disk space to be?
    – Drifter104
    Dec 7, 2015 at 12:48
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    Did you extend the disk in VMWare?
    – Reaces
    Dec 7, 2015 at 12:49
  • @Drifter104 Just updated my question and added what diskpart reports
    – Yiannis Mpourkelis
    Dec 7, 2015 at 13:12
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    @YiannisMpourkelis If you extended the disk size in VMWare recently, this is a known possible bug. Hence why I asked. See for example this kb.
    – Reaces
    Dec 7, 2015 at 13:15
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    I've seen strange numbers with disk quotas in the past (not exactly like this) but can you check the quota tab to see if there are any set?
    – Drifter104
    Dec 7, 2015 at 13:31

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Disk Quotas will show different amounts depending how and what is set.

(As per comment) These can be disabled doing the following

Run mmc.exe
Add/remove Snap-in (Local computer policy).
Go To Local computer policy > Computer configuration > Administrative templates > System > Disk quotas > Enable disk quotas > Set to Disabled.

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