How to increase existing space on VHD

[Guest Girish J Bhatia]

I am sorry if this is the not the right DL but I couldnt find anything else

on the Newsgroup about Virtualization so hence this NewsGroup.

 

I am using Virtual PC 2007 and I have a VHD upto 10GB and is almost reaching

its limit. Is there a way to increase the existing size of the VHD from 10GB

to 20GB since I dont want to add another HDD to the Virtual PC.

 

Any answers or links would be useful.

 

Thank you...

 

Girish

[Guest Corey Hynes [MVP]]

Re: How to increase existing space on VHD

 

You can't resize the existing VHD. Your best bet is to create a new VHD of

a later size, and then use an imaging program to move the data. In other

words, the exact same process you would use to replace a physical disk with

a larger one.

 

Corey

 

 

"Girish J Bhatia" <GirishJBhatia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:0D24D6C7-09C3-4169-B01B-B7FD15A4B9C2@microsoft.com...

>I am sorry if this is the not the right DL but I couldnt find anything else

> on the Newsgroup about Virtualization so hence this NewsGroup.

>

> I am using Virtual PC 2007 and I have a VHD upto 10GB and is almost

> reaching

> its limit. Is there a way to increase the existing size of the VHD from

> 10GB

> to 20GB since I dont want to add another HDD to the Virtual PC.

>

> Any answers or links would be useful.

>

> Thank you...

>

> Girish

[Guest Corey Hynes [MVP]]

Re: How to increase existing space on VHD

 

And 2 hours later, on an unrelated search, I came across this

 

http://vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx

 

Use at own risk....

 

"Corey Hynes [MVP]" <corey@hynesite.biz> wrote in message

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> You can't resize the existing VHD. Your best bet is to create a new VHD

> of a later size, and then use an imaging program to move the data. In

> other words, the exact same process you would use to replace a physical

> disk with a larger one.

>

> Corey

>

>

> "Girish J Bhatia" <GirishJBhatia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

> message news:0D24D6C7-09C3-4169-B01B-B7FD15A4B9C2@microsoft.com...

>>I am sorry if this is the not the right DL but I couldnt find anything

>>else

>> on the Newsgroup about Virtualization so hence this NewsGroup.

>>

>> I am using Virtual PC 2007 and I have a VHD upto 10GB and is almost

>> reaching

>> its limit. Is there a way to increase the existing size of the VHD from

>> 10GB

>> to 20GB since I dont want to add another HDD to the Virtual PC.

>>

>> Any answers or links would be useful.

>>

>> Thank you...

>>

>> Girish

>