Expand Virtual Drive

[egodette]

Anyone have suggestions on how to expand a virtual drive? I dont want to add another drive. I want to make the 5gb drive currently running the OS to be 20gb.

 

[mrdenny]

This forum thread should tell you what you need.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/18373

I use it all the time.

Denny
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[AJZnSD]

You will need to stretch the partition after you run the command Mr Denny provided. I would recommend Acronis Disk Director which works great and will expand the drive on the fly.

AJZ

 

[mrdenny]

To expand the drive I use diskpart to extent the volume. It's included with Windows 2003 so it saves me a download.

Denny
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