With Microsoft Hyper-V, it is easy to expand a virtual hard drives. This article will show you how to extend a volume in Hyper-V VM.
1. Turn off the VM, right click on it, and select Settings.
2. Click on IDE Controller or SCSI Controller, and then Hard Drive
3. In Virtual hard disk, click on Edit.
4. Click Next in Locate Virtual Hard Disk.
5. Check Expand in Choose Action.
6. In Expand Virtual Hard Disk, enter the new size. For example, original size is 500GB. If we want to add another 150GB, then the total size is 650GB.
7. In Completing the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, click on Finish.
8. Login to the VM and check the Drive spaces C which 499GB.
9. Open Computer Management and go to Disk Management, you will see Unallocated which is we just extend in Hyper-V settings.
10. Right-click on Unallocated and select Extend Volume.
11. In Welcome to the Extend Volume Wizard, click on Next.
12. In Select Disks, highlight the new added volume 150GB, click Next.
13. In Completing the Extend Volume Wizard, click on Finish.
14. The Disk Management will show C drive is 650GB.
15. In File Explorer, the C drive is 649GB.
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