{"id":21362,"date":"2017-11-01T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=21362"},"modified":"2024-09-04T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:58:07","slug":"how-to-expand-virtual-disk-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/how-to-expand-virtual-disk-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Expand Virtual Disk on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Expand Virtual Disk on Windows 10<\/h1>\n<p>In this tutorial, we will learn how to expand the virtual disk for the guest OS virtual machine on VMware Workstation.<\/p>\n<h2>Environment<\/h2>\n<p>Host Operating System: Windows 10<\/p>\n<p>VMWare Workstation.<\/p>\n<h2>Expand Virtual Disk<\/h2>\n<p>Click <strong>Edit virtual machine settings<\/strong> link.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Virtual Machine Settings<\/strong> window, <strong>Hardware<\/strong> tab click <strong>Hard Disk<\/strong> device.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the <strong>Expand&#8230;<\/strong> button to extend the disk volume.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expand-Virtual-Hard-Disk-VM.png\" alt=\"Expand Virtual Hard Disk VM\" width=\"1768\" height=\"924\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expand-Virtual-Hard-Disk-VM.png 1768w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expand-Virtual-Hard-Disk-VM-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expand-Virtual-Hard-Disk-VM-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expand-Virtual-Hard-Disk-VM-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Expand-Virtual-Hard-Disk-VM-1536x803.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1768px) 100vw, 1768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Expand Disk Capacity<\/strong> window, specify the new disk size.<\/p>\n<p>Click the <strong>Expand<\/strong> button to increase the size of the disk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note that Virtual machines with snapshots cannot be expanded using the above steps. If the snapshots are no longer valid, we can remove them before expanding the hard disk. Otherwise, we can use\u00a0VMware vCenter Converter to expand the disk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<h3>Windows 11 Tutorials<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/windows-11-tutorials\/\">https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/windows-11-tutorials\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Information on Windows 11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Expand Virtual Disk on Windows 10 In this tutorial, we will learn how to expand the virtual disk for the guest OS virtual machine on VMware Workstation. Environment Host Operating System: Windows 10 VMWare Workstation. Expand Virtual Disk Click Edit virtual machine settings link. In the Virtual Machine Settings window, Hardware tab click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21362"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24008,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions\/24008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}