Extending an existing Windows 2003 system vhd image

When you try to install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you will notice that you will need a lot of free space on your system drive. Unfortunately this was not the case with my SharePoint development VPC. Luckily it is possible to extend your existing C-disk.

• Download VHD Resizer from vmtoolkit.com
• Next boot up your VPC with the newly resized disk as a secondary disk (This is important since you can't resize a system or boot volume) - and use Diskpart
• Go to command prompt
• Type diskpart
• Type list volume
• Type select volume [Your Volume Number]
• Type extend
• Save your VPC and change the settings of your Virtual PC image to use the resized disk as boot volume.

Tags van Technorati: microsoft,windows+server,windows2003,vhd,vpc