Resize Windows 2003 Harddisk VMware
- Shut the VM down
- Edit settings
- Select Hard disk
- Increase the size on that properties page
- On another Windows 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 and either run the following or if Windows 2008, you can use Server Manager:
- 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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