Re: VirtualBox help

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-01-04 12:05, address@hidden wrote:
> Alternatively, if that doesn't work, does anyone know how to recover 
> files from a virtual hard drive?
> > I think you simply want to enlarge the file system to the full 
> > virtual harddisk size, right?
> > There's that nice gparted live ISO image, from which you can boot 
> > your virtual machine (download the iso (~100MB), set it as the 
> > virtual box's CD drive, change boot order to boot from CD and run 
> > your virtualbox) and then resize the file system to the full 
> > available space.
>
> Opens up like a charm, but it seems that my drive is blocked @ 19.42 
> gigs (see screen shot) and that I can only fiddle with the swap space. 
>  Is this the right thing to do?

You'll have to move (remove) the swap space so that you can enlarge your 
real data partition...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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