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Hi Folks--<br />
I just finished creating a new VM with a 60 gb virtual drive. I got the OS installed, networking configured, got MS updates on, activated the lic and put the machine on my domain. When I went to create a folder off the Root I noticed there was only 3+gb left on the C, which was configged for 15gb at the beginning of the OS install. OK....but where was the 2nd partition of 45 gb of unallocated space?? <br />
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I shut the VM off, went into settings for the .vhd file and found that it was indeed 60gb BUT that I'd created a Dynamically Expanding disk rather than the Differencing Disk that I normally do. I don't recall choosing the Dynamic type...<br />
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So I need to make it a Differencing Disk but it doesn't seem to be an option...I can Compact it, Expand it or convert it to a Fixed Disk...but not convert it to a Differencing Disk. <br />
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It looks to me like I have to delete the disk and start over with the VM...is that true? Do I have any other oprtions? <br />
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Thanks for your time...Tom
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Hi Folks--
I just finished creating a new VM with a 60 gb virtual drive. I got the OS installed, networking configured, got MS updates on, activated the lic and put the machine on my domain. When I went to create a folder off the Root I noticed there was only 3+gb left on the C, which was configged for 15gb at the beginning of the OS install. OK....but where was the 2nd partition of 45 gb of unallocated space?? 

I shut the VM off, went into settings for the .vhd file and found that it was indeed 60gb BUT that I'd created a Dynamically Expanding disk rather than the Differencing Disk that I normally do. I don't recall choosing the Dynamic type...

So I need to make it a Differencing Disk but it doesn't seem to be an option...I can Compact it, Expand it or convert it to a Fixed Disk...but not convert it to a Differencing Disk. 

It looks to me like I have to delete the disk and start over with the VM...is that true? Do I have any other oprtions? 

Thanks for your time...Tom

Can I Convert Dynamic to Differencing?

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.