Need to increase the size of a VPC VHD?

I needed to increase the size of a 16 GB Virtual PC VHD last night. I wasn't sure if it was possible, but it is and it is pretty easy.

I first used the VhdResize utility from vmToolkit to expand the total size of the VHD from 16 GB to 80 GB.

Then I followed the instructions at Xtralogic to "Extending File System Partition: Using Microsoft DiskPart to extend NTFS partition".

The built in diskpart command line tool was easy to use and very effective.

Hope this helps someone else to be able to expand a VHD if necessary.

Tip: Turning off the virtual machine beep

This is a sanity tip from Megan Davis of "The Soul of a Virtual Machine". You can disable the BEEP on Virtual PC VHD with her tip.