How big can be a virtual HARD disk in ESXi 3.5?

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  Hello Sir,

  Charan my name & I'm from the India.

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  CR9 wrote:

  Hello Sir,

  Charan my name & I'm from the India.

  I have a HP Pavilion P001tx.

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  How can I remove and recover my 600 GB of free storage?

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  Thanks in advance!

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