[Win7-HVM] Problems with disk space

[Антон Чехов]

Hello,

I installed a Win7 HVM template like described in the docs. It's working fine but there is one thing I can't work out yet. I have now assigned 40GB of max system storage and 30GB of max private storage. I started with the original settings. Opening the appvm, my disk shows only 19.8GB of disk space with almost all of the space being used.
Starting WinUpdate I cannot install most of it because there is only 500Mb of free space.

I checked the space as to the docs regarding increasing disk size for VM. Everything seems to be okay.

Anything I can do, to have more space available?

PS: Windows Tools didn't seem to have installed, but I wanted to sort out the problems with disk space at first.

Thanks for taking the time to read.

[Антон Чехов]

I managed to free additional disk space by right-clicking on my drive, selecting "Properties" and "compress all files". That way I could install the latest Windows Tools. Qubes Private Image is now correctly displayed with 29.9GB of space, but the local disk drive (C:) is still at 19.8GB. If someone could tell me what I might miss/do, it would be appreciated.

Updates are working fine but not until I did the following (I have Win7 Professional with SP1):
-deactivate updates
-install internet explorer 11
-install Windows6.1-KB3172605-x64

[entr0py]

Антон Чехов:

Did you see this page? https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/resize-disk-image/

Scroll down to #HVM disk image, Windows 7. You need to grow the volume from within the guest OS after allocating space via dom0.

[Антон Чехов]

On Friday, December 30, 2016 at 1:18:23 AM UTC+1, entr0py wrote:
> Did you see this page? https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/resize-disk-image/
>
> Scroll down to #HVM disk image, Windows 7. You need to grow the volume from within the guest OS after allocating space via dom0.

I did see it but I missed the important part about adjusting within the guest OS ("diskmgmt.msc"). Sorry. There I found the 20GB of unallocated space.
Thanks a lot!