I am trying to delete VM from VMware. I do not need VMware in this computer anymore. I am afraid that the allocated space (100gb) would not be recovered if i delete the VMware and not the VM inside the VMware first.
Error -
- I first entered the password of the vm and right clicked on the vm in vm library and clicked 'Delete from Disk"
- then it popped -
" To delete this encrypted virtual machine without entering the password, the folder containing this virtual machine will be moved to the Recycle Bin.
Folder path: "Q:\".
Do you want to continue?"
- I clicked continue.
- then i showed the following error - "Error while deleting the virtual machine: Failed to move the virtual machine folder to the Recycle Bin."
please help me delete the vm and vmware and recover my 100gb space. I used drive Q and not the documents folder.
Has the VM be stored in the Q: drive's root, rather than in a directory?
If you don't need the VM anymore, you may simply delete it's files/folder. Make sure you delete the correct files!
André
the vm is stored in - " Q:\ " . Can you help me on how to delete the correct files? if i delete the files, will the hdd space be reverted automatically? thank you.
the vm is stored in - " Q:\ " . Can you help me on how to delete the correct files? if i delete the files, will the hdd space be reverted automatically? thank you.
I Delete the VM. Since the VM was in the Q: Drive's root, i put all those vm files present in the Q drive (only vm files were there in that drive) to a folder, and then i went back to the vmware and added this vm back to the library and i was able to successfully execute 'delete from disk' option.
