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I am new to Hyper-V Clustering.  I was attempting to create a new VM through Hyper-V Manager on one of our nodes in a cluster.  This is running on a Server 08 platform.  I downloaded Server 2012 and attempted to install it while creating this new VM.  I allocated 4 GBs of RAM and 100 GBs of storage for the VM.  At the 39% mark during the installation, the install hung and I got a prompt that the C drive space on the node was at a critical low status.  I checked and the free space on the C drive of the node is at 87 MBs.  I killed the installation of the VM, but the node is still at the 87 MB mark?  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to expand the drive on this or something?

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I noticed there is a 4 GB .bin file in this location, C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines.  There is a what looks like a registry older in there with the .bin file in it.  I was wondering if I could delete it as it was created at the time of the botched VM install, just to get some free space back?
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There is another VM on this host that has its VHD pointing to a different location than the one I attempted to create.  The one I attempted to create is pointing to the C drive of the host.  It is the only one pointing to this location.
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Arnold,

I was able to "Remove" the VHD after shutting down the botched VM.  I now have available space on the C drive.  You pointed me in the right direction on this one.  I thank you.  I will pay closer attention to the VHD location next time during the install.
Was able to go in and delete the VHD file associated with the new VM.  I suggest researching the location of other VM's VHD file location before just going through the prompts accepting the defaults.  My bad.
if you go into the hyper-v settings you can change the default Virtual Machine  and Virtual hard Disk LocationsUser generated image
Thank you David.  I guess I was awarding points while you were posting.  You have provided valuable information and it is greatly appreciated.
If this is a cluster setting is the clustered storage in Cluster Shared Volumes? If yes, then CSV storage is accessed via C:\ClusterStorage\VolumeXX where "XX" is the CSV volume number.

You can find the volume number CSV association in Failover Cluster Manager.