How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
What is the easiest way to grow your partition in VirtualBox 3.0.
My 10GB XP are full.
Thank your for your Feedback.
Best
Zeno
PS: The speed of VirtualBox 3.0 is amazing.
My 10GB XP are full.
Thank your for your Feedback.
Best
Zeno
PS: The speed of VirtualBox 3.0 is amazing.
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Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Create a bigger HD, install it as second hd for the guest.
Then start Guest with a gparted magic live cd and copy the content form disc 1 to disc 2.
Then start Guest with a gparted magic live cd and copy the content form disc 1 to disc 2.
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Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Where do I get "gparted" from? Is that on the Windows CD?
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Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Try Google ...
German Howto (Linux): http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=236444
User Manual / Download Section: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Downloads
FAQ: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/User_FAQ http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8669
User Manual / Download Section: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Downloads
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Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
You are better off sticking with the CD. USB inside of the guest may cause a real problem with the recovery process. IMHO
Moving this to Windows guest since it fits that category better.
Moving this to Windows guest since it fits that category better.
Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Ok, thanks for the help! I will try the CD then. Would love to try the USB as well though.
Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
1. Ok, I tried as advised and I copied the partition after booting from gparted with the second hd for the guest. But now it will not boot. When I boot from the new partition I get a black screen and astefan.becker wrote:Create a bigger HD, install it as second hd for the guest.
Then start Guest with a gparted magic live cd and copy the content form disc 1 to disc 2.
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on the top of the screen, left corner.
2. Ok, I forgot to set the boot flag. Now it is set. I get a step further (the Windows Start-Up Screen flashes) and then I get a blue screen (very quick) and I am asked to start Windows in Safe-Mode but that won't start. This cycle just keeps going on endlessly.
3. Ok I tried this but it won't help: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... partition/
Any Feedback? Thank you!
Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Try clonezilla, gparted is best used for resizing after using clonezilla.
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Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Thanks for the hint. But I did _not_ resize, I set up a completely new partition and copied with gparted from /dev/hda /dev/hdb1 - where would clonezilla help me there?vbox4me2 wrote:Try clonezilla, gparted is best used for resizing after using clonezilla.
Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
I've used CZ extensively and it copies everything, I'm not that fond of gparted cloning.
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Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Ok, got it. Just downloading clonezilla-live-1.2.2-20.isovbox4me2 wrote:I've used CZ extensively and it copies everything, I'm not that fond of gparted cloning.
Will let you know about the outcome.
Ok, I am doing this now: See attachment. I choose local to local clone. Hope I am right!
Result:
I get the exact same result with clonezilla. Any idea how I could get a screenshot of that Blue-Screen that shows the error and flashes for about 1 second? I believe I get the same error as when I cloned with gparted.
BTW: I am using VirtualBox 3.0.0-Beta
Ok this is the BlueScreen I am getting when I use Clonezilla or Gparted to clone my 10GB partition to my 20 GB partition and then boot from the new 20 GB partition: Ok, now I am trying the Expert Mode in Clonzilla: and these options:
Last edited by zdavatz on 22. Jun 2009, 15:29, edited 1 time in total.
Re: How to grow your partition with Virtual Box 3.0
Ok, I fixed above issue, by booting from my XP CD and then choosing install new (not repair) and then choosing Repair. That fixed it for me.
It seems I did not have to do a full reinstall.
Thank you for all your help.
Best
Zeno
It seems I did not have to do a full reinstall.
Thank you for all your help.
Best
Zeno