increasing virtual disk capacity

[GUGAPAL]

Hello folks,

I use VMware 8.5.10 running Windows XP on an iMac with Mojave an I decided to increase my virtual disk size which was created years ago with a size of 20 GB.

I opened VMware, went to Setting and then to Hard Disk (IDE) and enlarged it to 41 GB. Took few m inutes and I got a message it was resized. I started the virtual machine and went to My Computer and clicked on the C unit and for my surprise it still shows 19.9 GB.

Any help and guidance will be highly appreciated

Regards   Paulo

 

[ColoradoMarmot]

You have to go into the control panel and expand the disk inside the guest - expanding it from Fusion just adds unallocated space to the virtual disk.

[GUGAPAL]

Hi  dlhotka,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for this very late reply. I wasn't able to see it earlier.

May I ask a little more detail: (1) What "control panel" you refer to? The Virtual Machine settings?; (2) "...expand the disk inside the guest - " ?  Could you please clarify?

Thanks in advance

Paulo

[a_p_]

It's the Disk Management that will allow you to resize the partition within Windows.

André

[wila]

Hi,

IIRC then using disk management for resizing the boot drive doesn't work on Windows XP.

In that case have a look at:

Resizing Virtual Disks With Step by Step Instructions

and

Problems after resizing XP virtual machine: not a valid Windows image

One additional tip: Make a backup of your VM before you do this!

(eg. shut down the VM and using Finder copy & paste the complete bundle to an external disk )

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Wil