I created a Individual Virtual Desktop with 16GB thin disk. I now want to expand the drive. I expand the drive to be a thick disk. When I go into edit settings the option to change the disk is grayed out. How can I add more disk space to the existing disk? I am planning on using Acronis to expand within Windows.
Thanks for your help..
Is the option still greyed out when the desktop is powered off?
If so, I would keep it powered off, go into the settings of another VM, add a hard disk, and follow the wizard, when the option to create a new one comes up, choose the option to use an existing disk, navigate to your individual one and select.
Go into this VM settings, increase the disk space and apply. Open this VM, power on, open disk management and see the new disk. Use the option to expand.
If it won't let you, open a command prompt. Run 'diskpart' then run 'list volumes'.
Identify the volume you want to expand eg 'select volume 2'
run 'expand'.
Then exit. Power off this VM. Edit its settings, remove the hard disk (make sure you don't select the option here to 'delete from disk'.
Then power on the original Individual Virtual Desktop.
It should be expand.
Hope this helps,
Dan
Hi,
I tried all the options you mention but it is still grayed out. I Migrated that VM to a new datastore and convert it to thic disk but still the same. I remove the disk from the (vPC) VM and add it to a server 2003 VM but still grayed out. No sure what I can try again or wish I knew what the reason is that it is grayed.
Is/Was VM running on snapshot? For snapshot disks, this option will be always greyed out!
Thanks,,
Ramesh. Geddam,
VCP 3&4, MCTS(Hyper-V).
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I verified that there are no snapshots on the VM
Looks like there is a disk issue here....Try converting the VM using converter.
Thanks,,
Ramesh. Geddam,
VCP 3&4, MCTS(Hyper-V).
Please award points, if helpful
Is your disk set to IDE or SCSI? We have found that you can increase the size of the disk if it is set to SCSI.
Yes it is set to IDE but there are no options for ISCSI. These are Windows XP Pro VM's and the only options I have are IDE..