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  • Will I be able to extend the partition? right now the partition is sitting at 16 gigs out of an available 60 gigs. From my understanding, extending the partition isn't something that is built into windows.
    – Chris
    Commented Mar 8, 2010 at 15:00
  • @Chris: I don't have Win7 to play with, but that's indeed what the MS documentation claims.
    – harrymc
    Commented Mar 8, 2010 at 16:24
  • Outstanding. @HarryMC - yeap, this worked just like a partition magic tool would work. Walks you through a three step wizard and allows you to add space either through extending the partition or adding another VHD to the existing one. Learn something new about 7 every day.
    – Chris
    Commented Mar 8, 2010 at 17:40
  • To unmount right click on the disk header in Disk Management an choose "Unmount VHD") digitalcitizen.life/… Commented Jan 18, 2016 at 10:21