> Bill44077 <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> > have Virtual PC installed on my Windows XP SP2 machine and the guest
> > OS I am using is w2k3. I am trying to install the VS2005 beta and I am
> > getting the error
> >
> > Out of disk space -- Volume: "C:\"; required space: 1,997,844 KB;
> > available space: 1,318,724 KB. Free some disk space and retry.
> >
> > If I have a dynamic disk that is supposed to grow up to 16gig and I
> > have used some 3.61gig of the 4.87gig (according to the Properties on
> > my C: drive on the Guest machine) why can't it grow to accomodate
> > this 1.9gig install. My host computer has 11.1gig free.
>
> From the data you have given, it is clear that your dynamic virtual disk is
> *not* capable of expanding to 16GB. The data from Windows clearly shows
> that the maximum size your dynamic disk will expand to is 4.87 GB. That
> presumably is the size it was created as. Dynamic disks cannot grow larger
> than the size they were created as.
>
> --
> Robin Walker
> (email address - cut out)
>
>
>

> have Virtual PC installed on my Windows XP SP2 machine and the guest
> OS I am using is w2k3. I am trying to install the VS2005 beta and I am
> getting the error
>
> Out of disk space -- Volume: "C:\"; required space: 1,997,844 KB;
> available space: 1,318,724 KB. Free some disk space and retry.
>
> If I have a dynamic disk that is supposed to grow up to 16gig and I
> have used some 3.61gig of the 4.87gig (according to the Properties on
> my C: drive on the Guest machine) why can't it grow to accomodate
> this 1.9gig install. My host computer has 11.1gig free.

> Thanks much for the quick reply. Interesting that when I set up the
> dynamic disk, it showed 16787kb (or something close :). It was the
> default setting that is used to create the disk. Should the
> properties of the C:/ drive on the Guest OS show 16gig? Perhaps I did
> do something incorrect (wouldn't be the first mistake I've made).