Disk Expansion

[BIG1]

Hi,

in VmWare I have a virtual machine (OS : XP Pro). I want to expand system disk (C:) because there is not enough. But when I expand it, it is a new drive, to give a lettre and format it. Then it can not help since C: is not expanded.

Is there any option that I ignore when expanding ?

is it realy possible ? If yes how ?

Thank you.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

You will want to use something like Dell's extpart to extend the C: drive on XP.  There is no native capability to extend the OS partition in XP.

Good Luck!

[a_p_]

To expand th system drive on XP you either need to boot the VM from a partition utility like gparted or from a Vista/Windows 7 DVD and run diskpart from the recovery command line.

André

[samansalehi · Accepted solution]

If you see the Free Space on Disk Management of your xp, just use a software for changing the size of the partition, the EASEUS Partition Master 6.1 and change the size, if you did not see the adding size storage, just edit the harddrive on vmware.

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Thank u

Saman