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amccombs wrote:GParted-iso? shows to be linux, how will that help windows guest?
I already resized it, all I need to do is have the os see it.

Gparted is a linux live CD but it does adjust Windows partitions. I've done it to XP installs several times...

Now after installing Fedora 14 with Virtual Box 4.0.4 I managed to get the rezice command to work:

VBoxManage modifyhd /media/E-disk/VBox_HD/2008R2.vdi --resize 150000

I guess there is a problem with "old" vdi-files!? Created in earlier versions of Virtual Box?

Anyway - this post has grown nicely into a "How to increase your Virtual Box HD"

To answer the last discussions: If you boot with any partitioning-tool you are able to change the partitions on the VM-HD (Use Gparted only because it is free and easy to download and comes with a "Windows-look" (no need to know linux)). In some cases after you have resized your HD, the part that you have increased is not yet active. That is where the partitioning-tool comes in. In Windows 7 this is part of the operating system and you do NOT need Gparted. In Windows 7 - right click "Computer" - choose "Manage" - "Disk Manager".