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I was running out of space on Windows, running on a virtual machine, so I decide to expand the harddrive. I went through the simple procedure, and everything seemed to work fine. Until I ran Windows, and it's like nothing ever happened at all.

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In the windows side you also have to expand the partition. Open disk management in windows (they called it open an format hard disk partitions) and right click the partition bar and select extend partitions.

answered Nov 23 '10 at 15:55

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Thank You!

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The storage is set to dynamically expand. Which means that it will expand only when you need the space in Windows so that it doesn't take up all of the space on your main machine. If you check the "Pre-allocate disk space" box and then boot Windows you will see that the hard drive size has increased. But this will also take up a larger portion of your Macs hard drive.

answered Nov 23 '10 at 16:44

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