On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:21:08 -0400, Tejas Guruswamy <tejas.guruswamy@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 16/09/11 20:08, Fr David Ousley wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:16:32 -0400, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 09/16/2011 06:38 AM, Fr David Ousley wrote:
In the Virtual Box Settings > Storage, it shows the correct file, with the correct size 20 gigs. In Windows, Computer > Hard disk properties shows the old size, 10 gigs.
I also noted that VBoxManage has an expand utility, which I had tried earlier, before posting. I tried that on the old file and successfully expanded it to 15 gigs. But in widows it still shows 10. So it seems to be a windows issue, and I don't see an obvious way around it. It seems like it must be something obvious, which I didn't see.
It went very smooth on this end...
It was very smooth here too, until the last step .../
Thanks for your efforts!
Hmmm...
Obviously something isn't right. Let's start with a .vdi file review on your system. Under ~/.VirtualBox, the .vdi location has changed not too long ago. Originally, I had my .vdi files under ~/.VirtualBox/VDI:
Mine are set up in the second way: the .vdi files under each machine's directory. The Virtual Box set up does not complain, however, about using a hard disk from another directory.
Is there anyway possible you are still actually booting your old .vdi due to the changed path to the new .vdi file??
I think we can eliminate this possibility. (a) the Virtual Box manager storage for the machine (shown before booting) lists the correct .vdi (in my case xp2.vdi rather than windowsxp.vdi). (b) I moved windowsxp.vdi completely out of the Virtual Box tree (too paranoid to delete it entirely). (c) windowsxp.vdi has been expanded to 15 gigs using VBoxManage modifyhd --expand, so there should still be room if that were the one being used.
And Windows when booted shows a 10 gig hd, completely full.
Could be you need to expand the partition to fill the new larger HD.
The detailed instructions to which you referred me mentioned using Disk Management in Windows 7 to recognize the added space, though it says nothing about XP, and I can find no equivalent. This led me to suspect windows rather than Virtual Box, as the latter seems to be correctly configured.
Disk Management is in the Administrative Tools part of Windows XP if I remember correctly. Right click on the start menu, and somewhere in the settings you can enable the "Administrative Tools" menu.
The only thing left to try that I can think of is creating a new, fixed size disk. But we do seem close on this one, should you have another idea.
Thanks.
dao
Regards, Tejas
I found Disk Management, but it only shows "Unallocated Space" wihtout (so far as I can tell) giving me any way of using it. -- Fr David Ousley davidousley@verizon.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org