How do i increase the size of a hard disk drive

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david reynolds - 27 Apr 2004 16:46 GMT

I have a dynamically increasing hard disk but when i go
to install an application it (the application) says not
enough space to install!

any ideas?

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Scott Baker - 27 Apr 2004 17:10 GMT

A VHD has a fixed size, set when you create it. Check the
free space that the Guest OS is showing. That's what the
application install is looking at.

A Dynamic VHD just means that a 16GB virtual disk doesn't
take up 16GB on the Host unless it needs to.

Scott

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Scott Baker - 27 Apr 2004 17:13 GMT

Since you didn't mention anything about the Guest OS,
etc., it could also be that you partitioned the Guest
hard disk smaller than the maximum size of the virtual
disk.

Scott

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David Reynolds - 30 Apr 2004 15:28 GMT

Thanks for your help. That clarifies things for me.

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Colin Barnhorst - 27 Apr 2004 17:56 GMT

You may also want to consider creating a .vhd file with
the hard drive wizard and selecting a drive size larger
than 16GB (up to 130GB if I remember correctly) and then
creating a virtual pc. When asked for "existing"
or "new" virtual hard drive, choose existing and browse
to the custom .vhd file.

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