New VB on Formatted Hard drive installs old VB Settings

[jimsjm]

I have uninstalled VB from my system and then tried reinstalling VB on a newly reformatted hard drive. The same VB machine installs complete with Windows, even though all I am installing is the VB 4.26.
The problem I am having is that my physical hard drive is VB dedicated 55G and VB is only recognizing 15G and showing full. Running Windows 732 on VB. I really just want to increase the size of the hard drive that VB Windows is seeing.
Very perplexing!

[mpack]

Uninstalling the software does not delete the data... I don't know why you would expect that it would. Would your .doc files disappear if you uninstall Word?

Also, installing the software on a new drive does not change the default location for the data.

The VMs are stored by default in your "<userdoc>\VirtualBox VMs" folder. The register of VMs is stored in the file VirtualBox.xml, stored in the "<userdoc>\.VirtualBox" folder. Delete the contents of both folders, empty the recycle bin and the data will be gone.

To change the default location for VMs, run VBox, go into File|Preferences|General and edit the "Default Machine Folder" field. After that all newly created VMs will go there.

See the "Howtos and Tutorials" area, FAQ section, for a discussion of how to resize the capacity of a virtual disk.