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Expanding a Dynamic Disk

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 02/11/2009
From: "Alan Cameron" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I have used VirtualPC 2007 for some time now on a Windows XP host to support
Windows XP Development.
I am reaching the limit of the dynamic disk I setup initially. I had no
reason to increase the 16GB maximum size when I started using VPC. Now I do.

What is the easiest way to increase the maximum disk size to 20GB with no
loss of content?
1. Create a new VHD and copy the contents in a dos prompt copy C:\*.* D:\
2. Image the disk using proprietary software and restore to the new disk.
3. What others can you suggest?

--
Alan Cameron

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RE: Expanding a Dynamic Disk

Sent: 02/11/2009
From: Andrew Tapp
Message:

You could try http://vmtoolkit.com/files/default.aspx and look for VHDResizer.

Hope this helps.

"Alan Cameron" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I have used VirtualPC 2007 for some time now on a Windows XP host to support
> Windows XP Development.
> I am reaching the limit of the dynamic disk I setup initially. I had no
> reason to increase the 16GB maximum size when I started using VPC. Now I do.
>
> What is the easiest way to increase the maximum disk size to 20GB with no
> loss of content?
> 1. Create a new VHD and copy the contents in a dos prompt copy C:\*.* D:\
> 2. Image the disk using proprietary software and restore to the new disk.
> 3. What others can you suggest?
>
>
> --
> Alan Cameron
>
>
>

Re: Expanding a Dynamic Disk

Sent: 02/11/2009
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:15:01 -0800, Andrew Tapp >> I have used
VirtualPC 2007 for some time now on a Windows XP host to support
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

VHDResizer does the job....
But notice that at the end you will have a new bigger disk drive with
your old disk as a partition on this disk that does not use the whole
disk. So you have space to partition a second drive on this disk and
then use it to store your files. This can be done with the native
tools in XP (diskmanager).
But if you want to utilize the whole new virtual disk on the base
partition then you need 3rd party tools to expand the existing
partition to fill the whole drive. This does not come with XP.
PartitionMagic from Symantec is one product for example (not free).

By the way, why not set the new virtual disk to a much bigger size,
like 64 Gb? It won't affect your host VHD file size until you fill it
with data, but you will not need to repeat this upgrade down the
line...

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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>> Windows XP Development.
>> I am reaching the limit of the dynamic disk I setup initially. I had no
>> reason to increase the 16GB maximum size when I started using VPC. Now I do.
>>
>> What is the easiest way to increase the maximum disk size to 20GB with no
>> loss of content?
>> 1. Create a new VHD and copy the contents in a dos prompt copy C:\*.* D:\
>> 2. Image the disk using proprietary software and restore to the new disk.
>> 3. What others can you suggest?
>>
>You could try http://vmtoolkit.com/files/default.aspx and look for VHDResizer.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>"Alan Cameron" wrote:
>

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