Last year wrote a blog post How To Expand and Extend To Increase Capacity On A Virtual Hard Disk The Easy and Fast Way–Solve the problem of “Out of Disk Space on Drive C” Forever Please refer to this blog post for a step-by-step video of the process.
I ran out of space on my Boot to VHD drive and found that the instructions were identical. Here is what I did:
1) Boot into a different OS using dual boot
2) Open an Elevated Command Prompt:
To run any application with elevated privileges (as Administrator) simply right-click on that program from the menu and select Run as Administrator. An example of this would be if you wanted to run a Command window with elevated permissions just click Start then type cmd then Right-Click on Command icon and select Run as Administrator. This is also known as Administrative Permissions. This tip will work on just about any other program too ![]()
3) The following are the commands I ran:
diskpart
Select vdisk file=”D:Boot.Win8-RTM-MS-VLWin8-RTM-MS-VL.vhd”
list vdisk
expand vdisk maximum=50000
attach vdisk
list disk
– If disk is not online… Use “Online Disk” to bring it online
list volume
select volume 8
extend
list volume
detach vdisk
exit
3) Now I just reboot back into my Boot to VHD drive and it has an extra 10gb of available space
