Expand Hyper-V hard disk - here's how to do it

With the help of a Hyper-V hard disk, you can react to changing requirements at any time and thus increase the storage space of your virtual hard disk. This can be done with just a few clicks and without much effort.

How to increase the size of your Hyper-V hard disk

To increase the size of your virtual hard disk, one of the tools available to you is the Hyper-V Manager. With it, you can handle enlarging your storage in no time and thus expand the space of your Hyper-V hard disk easily.

1. First, open the Hyper-V Manager and navigate to the settings of the corresponding hard disk.
2. Now select the disk you want to edit and then click "Edit".
3. Followed by go to "Expand" and then enter the desired total size of the memory.
4. Now confirm the entry with "Finish". After a few minutes, the process is finished and the increased memory is displayed.
5. Now you also need to share this memory in the partition. To do this, navigate via the path "Computer Management" to "Disk Management". Wird dort der erweiterte Speicherplatz angezeigt, brauchen Sie nichts mehr zu tun.
6. Falls nicht, dann wählen Sie „Aktion“ > „Festplatten neu einlesen“.
7. Jetzt klicken Sie mit rechts auf die jeweilige Partition und navigieren zu „Volume erweitern“.
8. Bestätigen Sie die Auswahl. Nun können Sie den vergrößerten Speicherplatz Ihrer Hyper-V Festplatte direkt nutzen.