Increase your (VMWare disk) size…

Over the years I have used both Microsoft’s Virtual PC and VMWare. As to which one I prefer and is better, that is a whole other post. In this post I wanted to write about increasing the size of a virtual hard drive of a VMWare machine. When creating a new machine you are asked to define the size of your drive and when you choose 16Gb, you  think you’ll never use  that much anyways, until, after a while, you realize you do need more. In that case, there are no options to increase the size of your C: drive. Ofcourse, you could always add a new drive (D or E), but that is just more files lingering around, as if VMware didn’t create enough already…. With regards to your OS drive size, you are stuck with the size you chose. No menu options, dialogs, or wizards can increase it… …unless you do this trick. Thanks to Paul Marshall for outlining these steps. I have done this a couple...

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