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Resize Windows Harddisk VM Ware#

• Shut the vm down,
• edit settings,
• select Hard disk.
• Increase the size on that properties page.
• On another VM,
• edit settings,
• add Hard Drive,
• use existing disk,
• browse to the ..vmdk file you want to extend and connect it.
• Log into this VM,
• open command prompt:
• Diskpart
• List volume
• Select volume 1 (make sure this correlates to the newly attached drive, usually D or E, change the number as appropriate)
• Extend
• Now you can exit, shutdown this vm and remove the extra hard drive, make sure you don’t delete it from disk and just remove it in VM settings.
• Once removed from that VM, you can boot the target vm and C drive will have been extended.

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