Timeline for Increase storage size of a VM inside VMWare Workstation [duplicate]
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| May 13, 2022 at 14:55 | comment | added | Ramhound | @code-8 - You expanded the virtual HDD on the host system, which allows you to extend the drive within the guest os, you have not created a partition to use that additional 100 GB of unallocated space. The reason you are unable to extend the system partition is that the recovery partition, is between the unallocated space and your system partition, moving or deleting (then recreating the disk at the end o the partition list) the recovery partition is the solution to that problem. The duplicate I proposed is only ONE solution to your problem which is fairly typical. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:53 | history | closed | Ramhound windows-10 Users with the windows-10 badge can single-handedly close windows-10 questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of How to move the recovery partition on Windows 10? | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:48 | answer | added | LPChip | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:46 | comment | added | code-8 | Now, I have 2 partitions 50GB and 100 GB. I don't see instruction on how to merge them into one as 150 GB. If you can confirm that the instruction on how to do that in the link , please let me know. I don't see them. Sorry...if I missed it. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:42 | comment | added | code-8 | @Ramhound my question is my VM storage is still 50GB as suppose to 150 GB as I wanted it to. I see 2 partitions. I think I need to merge them somehow, but I can't or don't know how. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:41 | comment | added | anon | I just expanded an Ubuntu VM from 50 GB to 100 GB - single file and it worked fine. The machine restarted and is running. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:41 | comment | added | Ramhound | @code-8 - You have 100 GB of unallocated space on the virtual drive. What exactly is your question? You need to assign a drive letter to that unallocated space, or move the recovery partition, and extend the system volume like you want. How you do either of those is well documented. What step of that process are you stuck on? | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:40 | comment | added | code-8 | @John I followed link told already as steps 1 increased to 150GB, but I don't know how to make my VM to take that extra space that I allocate. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:39 | comment | added | code-8 | @John Thanks for the link, reviewing now. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:39 | comment | added | code-8 | @Ramhound I don't see the expand button enabled. Did I do anything wrong ? | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:38 | history | edited | code-8 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 13, 2022 at 14:37 | comment | added | Ramhound | You need to also increase the size of the partition from within Windows using Disk Management. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:36 | comment | added | anon | kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004047 ...... Make sure any snapshots have been resolved (you cannot expand with snapshots in place). Make sure the machine was OFF before trying to expand. Then if all fails, try to find a copy of VCenter Converter and use that to expand the file. | |
| May 13, 2022 at 14:31 | history | asked | code-8 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |