Cannot increase the capacity of the hard disk

ESX3.5 VI

A VM, Widnows 2003 OS,

I tried to increase the HardDisk1 from 8G to 15G, I saw the following:

Capacity

Drive Size (GB): 8,00

Size maximum (GB): 250.85

New size: 8 GB

So I changed the 8 to 15 on the new waist line.

OK the settings.  Now, when I go back to settings, it changed to 8G! What is c?

OK the settings. Now, when I go back to settings, it changed to 8G! What is c?

Are their active snapshots on this virtual machine?

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