Resizing a Windows System Partition in a VMware Virtual Machine

Resizing the system (boot) partition of a Windows machine is non-trivial; the disk cannot be in use at the time. When Windows resides in a virtual machine, you can expand the virtual disk, but that does not change the size of the Windows partition.

Pat Lee of VMware has a nice summary of the process here.

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