expand the hard drive

Dear all,

I would like to extend the hard drive on my virtual machine. But unfortunately he is disabled, even when I stop the virtual machine.

It is machine virtual version 7 and the hard disk, the thick type of provision.

I need to extend the C: drive.

Would be an option to add a second virtual hard drive on the virtual computer and extend the C drive?

Thank you

Edy

The most common cause for this is that the virtual machine has Active snapshots. You must delete all snapshots in order to be able to resize/grow a virtual disk.

André

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