VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

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Perryg
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Re: VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

Post by Perryg »

Look at the screen shot below. See where it says normal? Does yours say fixed? Do you have/use snapshots?
You view this in the storage section of the guest.
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jimsjm
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Re: VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

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Yes my screen looks like yours and it does say normal. I do have snap shots however I never use it.
It is the guest machine that is showing the hard drive at 15G. The host is showing the drive where VB is located as 50G.
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Re: VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

Post by Perryg »

Then follow the link I sent you.
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Re: VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

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I did, however It said that I could use Disk Management to change the size. The problem is that in Virtual Windows there is nothing to expand to...it is only showing 15G
I went to the command prompt within the guest computer and typed in" VBoxManage modifyhd --resize 49480" nothing happened. One thing I was confused about was when it said to use "<absolute path including the name and extension>" Not sure what that is in this case.
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Re: VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

Post by Perryg »

Perhaps this program will help. CloneVDI Tool
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Re: VirutalBox Hard Drive Showing Full

Post by jimsjm »

Thank you for your help Perryg, however this is getting much more complicated than my knowledge. I thought something like this would be a somewhat straight forward solution. I really appreciate you taking the time to help!
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