i cant see disks on xp sp 2

[jvagliat]

hi. i have a windows xp sp2 in virtualbox 2.0.4_ose on a 3.5 gb virtual disk (my host os is a ubuntu 8.10). i have two problems related to disk assigned to that vm:

1. the primary disk, over that, is instaled xp is of 3.5 gbs but says im using aprox 3.4 gbs and im only have instaled windows and a application of 400 mbs. when i select the program files and windows folder that used space say about 2 gbs used. but i have sayed windows reportme only 150mbs availables on the disk.
2. for other side i has assigned to this windows vm anothers virtual disks but i cant see its.

i attach two screenshots that show the configuration.

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windows vm disks setting

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what can are happening?

Thnks on advance.

[stefan.becker]

No Help possible. Buy a bigger Harddisk, create disk images with 50 GB growable.

The other thing: Windows can only work with supported filesystems. That are FAT and NTFS. With your Infos i cant say what you have in the second and third image.

[Sasquatch]

Installing windows on a drive that isn't at least 10 GB is not a good idea. A clean install can take up to 3-4 GB easy. So create a bigger one.

And like stefan said, if the Host itself is running out of disk space, get yourself a bigger hard drive, or move the file to a different drive.

As for the file system he's talking about, NTFS is always better. But this is Linux Hosts, so the VDI won't be bothered with this, unless you save the VDI on a FAT32 partition.