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How to enlarge a win VM
I had to enlarge a win VM because I made some bad calculation when I created it...
Virtualbox
Switch off the VM (do not save the state, properly switch it off)
In virtualbox go to file > Virtual Media Manager
Select a virtual hard disk in the list and use the “Size” slider at the bottom of the window to change its size. Click “Apply” when you’re done.
Extend your C:\ partition
Start your windows VM
Search for disk management in the start menu and click on this
If possible extend the C partition
Recovery partition in the way of the extention
If you can not extend it probably means that the recovery partition is in the way of the extention, no worries!
If your disk management looks like this it means your recovery partition is blocking the extension of the C Drive
You will need to delete the recovery partition so that you can extend C with the new space you added
Search for diskpart in the start menu and launch it as admin
diskpart
list diskselect disk <number>(choose the disk number for your C drive)list partitionselect partition <number>(choose the recovery partition)delete partition override
Extend your C
Now if you co back to disk management, you should be able to extend the C:\ partition
Do it and reboot :)
Resources
A helpful colleague :D, thanks Keven!
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