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increase c:\ drive issue with vm wrkstn 8

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host os win7 (2x500gb disks) c:\=500gb & d:\=500gig ............400gig available on c:\

guest/helper OSs: w2k3 server

 

i have a w2k3 vm1 on D:\ (on win7 host) whos size i need to increase from 100gb to 320 gb.

 

steps i followed:

 

1. copied the same vm1 on D:\ of host win7 to C:\ of host win7 with same name  vm1 to make helper vm as d:\vm1.

2. used vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 350gb "c:\vm1.vmdk" ...no snapshots to commit

3. grow%  successfully completed with below msg:

 

 

 

c:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 350G
B "C:\EPMOBIEE\EPMOBIEE.vmdk"
  Grow: 28% done.Disk expansion completed successfully.
WARNING: If the virtual disk is partitioned, you must use a third-party
         utility in the virtual machine to expand the size of the
         partitions. For more information, see:

 

 

any advise will be immensely useful

 

tq.

 

Message was edited by: Vee321


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