How to Enlarge Your VMWare Partition

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: alter your disk size using the VMware Workstation software.

   Menu:
   Virtual Machine>Hard Disk>Hard Disk Settings .
   
   Then just drag the slider over to how much you want your virtual machine to be.
   
   You will notice if you go to your C drive in your windows machine, that though you now have more space, your partition is still set at the old amount.
   
   So now you need to expand your partition to include it.
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   Step 2: While in your windows machine

   The home edition partition manager is free.
   
   Install it on your windows OS. ,,,,, Your C: disk now reads as having 60G!
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   Step 3: download the program EASEUS.

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   Step 4: Right Click on your partition disk

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   Step 5: (for me it was C:) and select resize/move partition.

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   Step 6: You can simply drag the slider over to the right

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   Step 7: to include the white space that is hanging out at the end of your blue space.

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   Step 8: Click the OK button.

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   Step 9: It will still be listed as a pending operation until you click the apply button

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    Step 10: which is a big check mark.

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    Step 11: Restart your system.

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