SOLVED:Make the vdi larger?
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th1bill
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SOLVED:Make the vdi larger?
I am running WindowsXP on a Ten gig dynamic partition, is it possible to either swell it out to 20 gig on my 320 gig hdd? I'm ruming a triple core AMD with 2 gig DDR2 and have better than 75% of my drive free. If this is not possible is it possible to to create another 10 gig vdi and set it up as D drive? I figure the questions are foolish but I've little to loose at this point. If it matters I am running Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks for the advise in advance.
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Re: Make the vdi larger?
Either use CloneVDI tool (see Windows Hosts forum, on Ubuntu host you run this under Wine), or see user manual for "VBoxManage modifyhd --resize". Either of those will change the disk size. To then change a partition to fill the enlarged drive, best tool is a gparted live cd.
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th1bill
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Re: Make the vdi larger?
Thanks for the advise but I played around last night until 0230 and I opened the vbox and went to Settings. There I highlighted the IDE Controller and added a new virtual drive attached to the same controller. The I fired the XP up and Initialized the new drive and assigned it to be F drive. Maybe someone else will be helped with all of this.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.