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The virtual disks tag on WindowsForum.com covers practical Windows storage work, especially where a hypervisor layer and a guest operating system have to agree. The tagged discussion walks through a common Hyper-V problem: a VHDX file is expanded, but drive C: inside the virtual machine still shows the old capacity and the Extend Volume option is grayed out. The thread explains that growing a virtual disk is really two separate operations, and that failures usually come from a skipped layer, a guest that cannot see the change yet, or a partition layout in the way.
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    Hyper-V VHDX Expanded but C: Won’t Grow? Fix Extend Volume Grayed Out

    Few things in Windows are as annoying as growing a Hyper-V virtual disk to 200 GB and then finding that drive C: inside the VM hasn't changed at all. The Extend Volume option is grayed out, File Explorer still shows the old size, and you start to wonder whether the hypervisor is ignoring you...