Losing Windows disk space on Macbook Pro... Please help..Thanks

[RE2015]

Dear VMWare Community,

I have a little problem and I would be glad if you could give some guidance.

1. I have a Mackbook Pro with 232 GB HD and 8GB RAM.

2. Using VMWare, I installed Windows 7 and allocated 90 GB HD and 3.5 GB RAM.

3. OS X Disk utility confirms that 90 GB of my Macbook Pro HD has been used.

4. VMWare settings also confirms that indeed Windows has been allocated 90 GB disk space.

5. Both Mac and Windows work just fine.

Problem - Windows Drive C (the only drive in my Windows) only has 40 GB. I would be glad if you could help me figure out where did the 50 GB go.

Thanks in advance.

RE2015

[avanish321]

Hi and welcome to Fusion community

Since VM settings and disk utility information is matching, the space is actually being used within windows itself.

How long have you been using this particular virtual machine?

To find which folder is taking up majority of the space, you  may try checking the properties of Users/<username> folder and its sub-directories manually.

Try clearing the %temp% dir and have a look at Downloads folder as well.

You may as well make us of some free tools which gives similar information.

Windirstat app can also be handy.

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

On Windows guest VM, open the Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc) and check if you create a partition using all the 90GB of disk, if not, right click the partition and select "Extend" and then the partition will use all unallocated space.

[RE2015]

Hi Richardson,

Thank you for your reply. It worked.

Unfortunately, before I received your reply, I explored VMWare and tried to slide the bar once more, increasing the allotted space by another 30 GB.

Because I didn't know yet the procedure you mentioned, my aim was to check if C drive is going to be updated.

Now that I could "Extend" the disk space using the procedure you mentioned, I am thinking how to recover the 30 GB. VMWare does not allow me to reduce the allotted disk space.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks