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How do I change the space I allocated to my virtual hard drive in VirtualBox?

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Mar 15, 20267359 views
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I have a Windows 7 64-bit virtual machine running inside VirtualBox. When I first setup the system I gave the virtual hard drive 20GB of space to work with, but I also set it to dynamically expand (or so I thought). Unfortunately I ran out of space and the drive is not expanding/changing, and I can…

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Fix for: How do I change the space I allocated to my virtual hard drive in VirtualBox?

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The command line tool will let you resize your guest's hard drive. Open up a command prompt/terminal/whatever for your host OS, and change to the folder where VirtualBox is installed ("C:\Program Files\VirtualBox" on Windows hosts). From there, run …

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