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I run a WinXP virtual machine on OS X host. One day I figured the disk allocated for WinXP VM was too small. Here are the steps to grow that disk size simply and painlessly:

1. Shutdown VM;
2. Run “/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS/diskTool -X 30GB myDisk.vmdk” where 30GB is the new desired size;
3. After diskTool is down growing the disk files, restart WinXP VM;
4. From WinXP run “Diskpart”
5. List volume
6. Select volume 2 (the desired volume name)
7. Extend

That’s it. I now have a newly expanded VM disk.