How can I increase the virtual machines harddrive space

[hockman5]

I am running Fedora 8.10 with virtual box running WinXP. Everything was working fine until it tried to install the SP3 service pack, then I received a message saying that it ran out of hard drive space. I set it up for 10 gig and figured that should be more than enough. Right now the only thing in there is WinXP and Quicken. Why would it use up 10 gigs for that?
Here is the message I get when I try to start the machine now....

Host system reported that the file size limit of the host file system has been exceeded. VM execution is suspended. You need to move your virtual hard disk to a filesystem which allows bigger files.
Error ID: 
DevATA_FILETOOBIG
Severity:
Warning

Is there something else wrong here or do I really need more space? How do I add more space for the machine. The SATA drive it is running on has plenty of space to alot.

[hockman5]

Ok, so I think I figured this out. I created a new bigger .vdi drive and now I just have to find a way to copy the data from the smaller one to the newer one. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 as the host.

[hockman5]

Sorry, I just now was able to understand the error message and it isn't that I ran out of space, it is that a file is larger than allowed on my filesystem. I don't understand how that can be possible, I formatted with NTFS and the only file that I know was downloaded was WINXP SP3 when it did windows update. I posted a new post with the correct question.....

[Sasquatch]

If the file is too big, it has to be FAT32, not NTFS. Check the drive properties to verify the file system.

[hockman5]

So for WINXP it is better to use FAT32 than NTFS with virtual box? I would think the opposite.

[Sasquatch]

I was talking about the error. You were certain it was on NTFS, but the error would only occur if it's FAT32, not if it's NTFS. You requested to lock this one, and continue in the other. So let's do that.