I just got done copying a VPC 2007 Hard disk file to a new computer that is
running a Host OS as Vista 64bit. The VPC 2007 installed on it is for the
64bit version.

But when I open the VCP machine on this new computer it's reporting that
it's out of disk space. It's only got around 16Gigs for the Hard drive and
it's set to be "Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk".

I've gone through the Compact it step in the Virtual Disk Wizard but still
didn't help.

I cannot find any where that tells me if there was an initial Maximum size
set for the Hard Drive.



I've tried copying files to the hard drive within the VPC to see if that
would expand the hard drive but it just runs out of space during the copying.

Can anyone tell me how to expand it or why it's not expanding on it's own?

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:29:00 -0800, Mike H
<MikeH@xxxxxx> wrote:

>I just got done copying a VPC 2007 Hard disk file to a new computer that is
>running a Host OS as Vista 64bit. The VPC 2007 installed on it is for the
>64bit version.
>
>But when I open the VCP machine on this new computer it's reporting that
>it's out of disk space. It's only got around 16Gigs for the Hard drive and
>it's set to be "Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk".
>
>I've gone through the Compact it step in the Virtual Disk Wizard but still
>didn't help.
>
>I cannot find any where that tells me if there was an initial Maximum size
>set for the Hard Drive.
>
>I've tried copying files to the hard drive within the VPC to see if that
>would expand the hard drive but it just runs out of space during the copying.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to expand it or why it's not expanding on it's own?

The maximum size usually defaults to 16GB, unless you pick Vista as
the OS,then you should get 65GB.

The system will expand to the limit set when it was created, in this
case, 16GB.

You'll need to either image the VM to a larger VHD, or you can try the
VHD resizer tool.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:

>
> The maximum size usually defaults to 16GB, unless you pick Vista as
> the OS,then you should get 65GB.
>
> The system will expand to the limit set when it was created, in this
> case, 16GB.
>
> You'll need to either image the VM to a larger VHD, or you can try the
> VHD resizer tool.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>

Thanks, I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. I'll have to
see if I can get the resizer tool then or go with the image route then.

Mike...

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:53:01 -0800, Mike H
<MikeH@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:
>

>>
>> The maximum size usually defaults to 16GB, unless you pick Vista as
>> the OS,then you should get 65GB.
>>
>> The system will expand to the limit set when it was created, in this
>> case, 16GB.
>>
>> You'll need to either image the VM to a larger VHD, or you can try the
>> VHD resizer tool.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
>> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>>

>
>Thanks, I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. I'll have to
>see if I can get the resizer tool then or go with the image route then.
>
>Mike...

Make a backup before you use it. I haven't used it personally.
There should be some older threads here on it...it may not work on a
boot drive.
Just google "vhd resizer" and it should take you right to the DL link

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:

>
> Make a backup before you use it. I haven't used it personally.
> There should be some older threads here on it...it may not work on a
> boot drive.
> Just google "vhd resizer" and it should take you right to the DL link
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>

Thanks Steve, I'll do that.

Mike...

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:51 -0800, "Steve Jain [MVP]"
<noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:53:01 -0800, Mike H
><MikeH@xxxxxx> wrote:
>

>>
>>
>>"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> The maximum size usually defaults to 16GB, unless you pick Vista as
>>> the OS,then you should get 65GB.
>>>
>>> The system will expand to the limit set when it was created, in this
>>> case, 16GB.
>>>
>>> You'll need to either image the VM to a larger VHD, or you can try the
>>> VHD resizer tool.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
>>> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>>>

>>
>>Thanks, I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. I'll have to
>>see if I can get the resizer tool then or go with the image route then.
>>
>>Mike...

>
>Make a backup before you use it. I haven't used it personally.
>There should be some older threads here on it...it may not work on a
>boot drive.
>Just google "vhd resizer" and it should take you right to the DL link

The resizer by itself makes a *new copy* of the old VHD disk leaving
it totally unharmed. It makes a new bigger disk, then copies all of
the data over. The end result is a disk with the old data in a
partition the same size as before and then an empty unpartitioned
space on top of that. You need to expand the existing partition into
the empty space to utilize it. Newer Windows versions can do that but
for older ones you need 3rd party tools...

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

"Bo Berglund" <boberglund@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7ii9h4pinpd9ajd0akdn726ukrkh8peoah@xxxxxx

> The resizer by itself makes a *new copy* of the old VHD disk leaving
> it totally unharmed. It makes a new bigger disk, then copies all of
> the data over. The end result is a disk with the old data in a
> partition the same size as before and then an empty unpartitioned
> space on top of that. You need to expand the existing partition into
> the empty space to utilize it. Newer Windows versions can do that but
> for older ones you need 3rd party tools...

I've used Partition Magic for this for years - never had a problem with
it...


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net