VMWare Partition Resize

Graham9 said:

This is the first time I've played with VMware, so I may be missing something obvious.

I have Win10 installed, with another copy of Win10 (not the same copy) installed with VMWare, running on a separate hard drive. Being a bit keen to get it up and running, I installed it using default values apart from aiming it at my second HD. Virtual Windows 10 is installed and updated and running well.

The HD I have it on is a 1TB SSD drive, and it all runs very fast. But because I used default values, the install has made itself sit within 40GB partition, which is way too small. Thus I would like to extend it to 100GB. I open Virtual Machine settings, click Hard Disk and then Expand, but nothing much is happening beyond that. In the box 'Capacity' it says Current size 34.9GB, System Free 888.5GB and Maximum Size 100GB, which is where I'd like it.

I have gone onto my 'real' Win 10 and down to Disk Management which just shows the drive as 931.51GB NTFS partition with nothing I can tweak to get my 100GB partition.

Am I missing something, doing something wrong or do I have to use some software to pull my VM partition out to 100GB?

Many thanks in advance.

I think you are confusing size of virtual hard drive with physical drive.

To increase size of partitions in vm, you have to increase size of vhd, then expand partition INSIDE vm to use unallocated space in VM. The important point is the vhd (just a file on host) cannot be increased by more than spare space on host drive.

How to Increase Disk Size in VMware Virtual Machine (windowsloop.com)