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Hi,

my Win7 partition got small. I used modifyhd to increase the size. The new size is correctly shown in the virtual media manager. But I wonder, why Win7 cannot see the additional space. It still reports the old size of the partition.

Can anybody give me a hint?

Thanks

Use the Windows disk management to extend the original partition to use the newly added space.

And note that you can't enlarge a disk if it uses snapshots.

thanks for your quick answers. It uses snapshots. Hence I think the best way is to create a complete new installation.

Or simply clone the existing VM (cloning the current state only - not the entire snapshot hierarchy), then enlarge the clone. Cloning requires VBox v4.1.x or later.

thanks mpack for the hint. But it took me hours to manage basics like modifyhd because I'm brand-new to VB So I do not need the challenge again. Somewhere out there might be a good description for cloning or maybe in the manual but for me it is faster to set up the new installation. But thanks again for your help!!!

You right click on the VM and select "Clone". I doubt that reinstalling from scratch is faster than that!

WOW - that's really fast That is not what I expected. Thanks.