Monday, April 28, 2008 10:56 PM
So I tried to build a VPC to mess around with Biz Talk with, but I made one crucial error:
(Windows Server 2003 + Extra Windows Components + Visual Studio 2005 + SQL Server 2005 + Biz Talk 2006 R2 + .NET Framework 2.0 + .NET Framework 3.0) = just under 10 GB
Unfortunately, I WAY underestimated the amount of space and set my VHD size to...you guessed it...10 GB.
No worries, I'm sure there's a way to magically resize my...oh...there isn't? I CAN'T resize it? Hmm...
But then I found VHD Resizer. This is a tool that will supposedly resize VHD's. Wonderful, sounds like what I need!
Unfortunately I'm not sure if the tool actually worked. See, I can't just use this new VHD as my *new* hard drive off the bat. Even though the physical drive may be larger, the partition isn't. So it still reads as a 10 GB drive.
I found some blog posts that walk you through how to get around this, but it involves assigning your larger disk to the secondary drive slot of your VPC. No problem right? Well, problem: for whatever reason, and I triple checked my settings, my second hard drive never shows up!
At this point, I'm thinking that I'm just going to have to start over (it wasn't that much time, but it is annoying as hell), unless someone out there can shed some light on this?
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