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From: Bill Grant on 8 Apr 2010 19:00 "JackSpratt" <pickledpork(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:OMDQPmw1KHA.5828(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > RCan wrote: >> yes you can :-) >> >> 1. you do have an Hyper-V system available which can expand a VHD. >> 2. Have an Win7/R2 system available and use diskpart for expand the >> maximum size of a VHD -> SELECT VDISK FILE="c:\test\test.vhd" -> EXPAND >> VDISK MAXIMUM=100 (MB) > > Perfect... almost. > Now my guest OS has 28GB of unallocated space. > How do I merge this onto the existing drive? > > Extend the partition.
From: JackSpratt on 10 Apr 2010 20:30 Bill Grant wrote: > > > "JackSpratt" <pickledpork(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:OMDQPmw1KHA.5828(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> RCan wrote: >>> yes you can :-) >>> >>> 1. you do have an Hyper-V system available which can expand a VHD. >>> 2. Have an Win7/R2 system available and use diskpart for expand the >>> maximum size of a VHD -> SELECT VDISK FILE="c:\test\test.vhd" -> >>> EXPAND VDISK MAXIMUM=100 (MB) >> >> Perfect... almost. >> Now my guest OS has 28GB of unallocated space. >> How do I merge this onto the existing drive? >> >> > > Extend the partition. > > using diskpart on the host? on the guest? disk management? I tried right clicking on the (guest) C drive and extending but it won't let me have the unallocated.
From: JackSpratt on 10 Apr 2010 20:40 JackSpratt wrote: > Bill Grant wrote: >> >> >> "JackSpratt" <pickledpork(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:OMDQPmw1KHA.5828(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> RCan wrote: >>>> yes you can :-) >>>> >>>> 1. you do have an Hyper-V system available which can expand a VHD. >>>> 2. Have an Win7/R2 system available and use diskpart for expand the >>>> maximum size of a VHD -> SELECT VDISK FILE="c:\test\test.vhd" -> >>>> EXPAND VDISK MAXIMUM=100 (MB) >>> >>> Perfect... almost. >>> Now my guest OS has 28GB of unallocated space. >>> How do I merge this onto the existing drive? >>> >>> >> >> Extend the partition. >> >> > > using diskpart on the host? on the guest? disk management? > I tried right clicking on the (guest) C drive and extending but it won't > let me have the unallocated. ok got it Run diskpart on guest os select disk 0 disk detail select volume 1 extend done.
From: RCan on 12 Apr 2010 13:58 ;-) Regards Ramazan "JackSpratt" <pickledpork(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:uAjYn#Q2KHA.5820(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > JackSpratt wrote: >> Bill Grant wrote: >>> >>> >>> "JackSpratt" <pickledpork(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:OMDQPmw1KHA.5828(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>>> RCan wrote: >>>>> yes you can :-) >>>>> >>>>> 1. you do have an Hyper-V system available which can expand a VHD. >>>>> 2. Have an Win7/R2 system available and use diskpart for expand the >>>>> maximum size of a VHD -> SELECT VDISK FILE="c:\test\test.vhd" -> >>>>> EXPAND VDISK MAXIMUM=100 (MB) >>>> >>>> Perfect... almost. >>>> Now my guest OS has 28GB of unallocated space. >>>> How do I merge this onto the existing drive? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Extend the partition. >>> >>> >> >> using diskpart on the host? on the guest? disk management? >> I tried right clicking on the (guest) C drive and extending but it won't >> let me have the unallocated. > > > ok got it > Run diskpart on guest os > > select disk 0 > disk detail > select volume 1 > extend > > done.
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