>doing that, I get to change the size.
>Mark Rae [MVP] wrote:
>> "d d" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>> news:(email address - cut out)...
>>
>>> How can I make it auto-expand the size rather than coming up against
>>> the size limit and not expanding ?
>>
>> I believe you have misunderstood what auto-expand means.
>>
>> When you create a new virtual hard disk, you have two options - dynamic
>> or fixed size. No matter which one you choose, you still must give it a
>> maximum size. The only difference is that, with a fixed size VHD, the
>> full VHD file will be created immediately.
>>
>> E.g. if you select a fixed VHD of 16GB, a 16GB VHD file will be created.
>> However, if you select a dynamic VHD of 16GB, a much smaller VHD file
>> will be created initially, and this file will expand dynamically *UNTIL*
>> it reaches its maximum size of 16GB - it won't expand indefinitely...
>
>Thanks Mark, yes it does seem like I misunderstood.
>
>I guess I'm forced to convert it to a fixed size and hope that when
>doing that, I get to change the size.

>Robert Comer wrote:
>>> I guess I'm forced to convert it to a fixed size and hope that when
>>> doing that, I get to change the size.
>>
>> You wont be able to.
>>
>> There's a couple different ways to do it, one being to use a tool like
>> this:
>> http://vmtoolkit.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/01/17/vhd-expander-available.aspx
>>
>> And then using a partition manager in the VM to expand the partition,
>> another is to use an imaging program and copy and expand your current
>> partition onto another VHD that's size was set bigger to begin with.
>>
>> Make sure and make a backup of your original VHD first though!!
>
>Thanks a lot for that. I'm trying it now. I'll probably use partition
>magic to resize the primary partition once it's increased.

> How can I make it auto-expand the size rather than coming up against the
> size limit and not expanding ?

> "d d" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>> How can I make it auto-expand the size rather than coming up against
>> the size limit and not expanding ?
>
> I believe you have misunderstood what auto-expand means.
>
> When you create a new virtual hard disk, you have two options - dynamic
> or fixed size. No matter which one you choose, you still must give it a
> maximum size. The only difference is that, with a fixed size VHD, the
> full VHD file will be created immediately.
>
> E.g. if you select a fixed VHD of 16GB, a 16GB VHD file will be created.
> However, if you select a dynamic VHD of 16GB, a much smaller VHD file
> will be created initially, and this file will expand dynamically *UNTIL*
> it reaches its maximum size of 16GB - it won't expand indefinitely...

> I guess I'm forced to convert it to a fixed size and hope that when doing
> that, I get to change the size.

>> I guess I'm forced to convert it to a fixed size and hope that when
>> doing that, I get to change the size.
>
> You wont be able to.
>
> There's a couple different ways to do it, one being to use a tool like
> this:
> http://vmtoolkit.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/01/17/vhd-expander-available.aspx
>
> And then using a partition manager in the VM to expand the partition,
> another is to use an imaging program and copy and expand your current
> partition onto another VHD that's size was set bigger to begin with.
>
> Make sure and make a backup of your original VHD first though!!

> You're welcome. You shouldn't run into any problems.

>Robert Comer wrote:
>> You're welcome. You shouldn't run into any problems.
>
>To complete this thread, you're right, I didn't. The resizer took less
>than half an hour to resize my 16GB vhd file. Then I just resized the C:
>partition in it using partition magic (takes just a few seconds). The
>final resulting vhd file is still only 16GB of course, but now it will
>expand up to the max size of 28GB that I set it to.