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Posted on 2007-11-19

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I have a virtual machine (Win2003 Server) that I need to add a second hard drive to for users data. The problem is I need this drive to be 400GB and when trying to add this drive it limits me to 256gb. How do I create a larger drive?

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ID: 203149702007-11-19

You've hit the maximum size for the block size on your disk. A block size of 1MB limits you to a 256GB disk.
See also http://communities.vmware.com/message/636438;jsessionid=371DB38BCDE908C87D018655328B778D

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