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Right-click on your VirtualBox disk, click Extend Volume to open Extend Volume wizard. Step 7: Here, the newly added space will appear as unallocated space. Alternatively, you can right-click on Computer (This PC in Windows 8.1), click Manage and then click Disk Management to open the same. Step 6: In the virtual operating system, open Run dialog box by pressing Windows and R keys, type Diskmgmt.msc in the box and then press Enter key to open Disk Management. Step 5: Open VirtualBox software and run the virtual machine that you would like to extend. But in order to use that disk space, you need to follow the next few steps as well. You have just added a few MBs or GBs to your VirtualBox’s disk. In the above command, replace 30000 with the new size of VirtualBox’s disk in MBs and replace “S:\VirtualBox\Windows 8.1 Preview.vdi” with the exact path to the disk with quotation marks. Vboxmanage modifyhd –resize 30000 “S:\VirtualBox\Windows 8.1 Preview.vdi”

Step 4: Finally, in the Command Prompt, enter the following command and press Enter key. To find out the path to the virtual machine, open VirtualBox, select the virtual machine that you would like to extend, click Settings, click Storage, and then select the virtual drive to see the exact location on the right-side (see screenshot). But if you have saved the virtual machine in some other location because of space constraints, you’ll need to find out the exact location. Usually, it’s located in VirtualBox folder located under Documents.

Step 3: Next, find out the exact location of the virtual hard drive that you wish to increase. In the above command, replace “C” with your Windows installation drive’s drive letter. Step 2: In the Command Prompt, type the following command and press enter key.

Alternatively, you can type CMD in Start menu search box (Windows 7/Vista) or in Start screen (Windows 8 and above) and press enter key to open Command Prompt. To do this, open Run dialog box by simultaneously pressing Windows logo and R keys, type CMD in the box, and then press Enter key.