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I have a windows 10 running on VM. I started with 50 GB. It too small for me now. I want to increase to 150 GB. I power off and expand in the VM settings to 150 GB already as you can see.

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I restart the VM again, and still see the old storage size (50 GB).

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Can someone please help ?

I would like to add, I can see that 100 GB now, I open up Disk Management and trying to select my C Drive and expand it, but all I see the shrink option, and my expand button seems grey out.

Do I need to format it before ?

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  • 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.
    – anon
    Commented May 13, 2022 at 14:36
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    You need to also increase the size of the partition from within Windows using Disk Management.
    – Ramhound
    Commented May 13, 2022 at 14:37
  • @Ramhound I don't see the expand button enabled. Did I do anything wrong ?
    – code-8
    Commented May 13, 2022 at 14:39
  • @John Thanks for the link, reviewing now.
    – code-8
    Commented May 13, 2022 at 14:39
  • @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.
    – code-8
    Commented May 13, 2022 at 14:40

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There is a partition in the way that prevents you from expanding your main partition.

The best thing you can do is use a partition manager (not disk manager) such as AIOMEI Partition Assistant that can perform partition move operations outside of windows by booting into its own environment.

From there, you want to move the 500 mb partition all the way to the end. After that, you can extend the partition, but next time you make the partition bigger, you run into the same problem. Its therefor better to also move the main partition to the right, then move the 500mb partition to before the main partition.

With AIOMEI Partition Assistant, I find it works best if you perform each operation seperately. Queueing multiple operations seem to fail most of the time which means no operation took place.

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