id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 5440 Lost Disk Space Ryan McKee "I too experienced the problem described in this ticket http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3410 I had a Virtual Machine Running On Windows 7 running Linux Mint as a Guest OS, during the installation of the Guest OS I encountered an out of space warning. Before the Guest OS I had allocated 8GB while 10GB were free, sometime during the installation of the Guest OS the free disk space warning come up, so I closed out of the Virtual Machine, went to the VirtualBox Media Manager, detached the hard drive and then ""removed"" it. After doing this and shutting down Virtual Box, Windows Claimed I had only 732 KBs of Free Disk space left. No installation of programs or additional data was implemented during this issue. There is clearly something wrong here, I started out with 10GB of free disk space and now even after removing the Virtal Hard Disk, I'm down to 732 KBs! That is a tremendous unbearable loss. I need a solution as I have programs and personal data on this machine that I wish to retain and do not wish to have to reformat and spend days or even a week reinstalling and configuring and setting up my computer the way I like it due to a flaw in Virtal Box. Please tell me how to recover the disk space that VirtualBox allocated for the Virtal Machine." defect closed other VirtualBox 3.0.10 worksforme Hard Disk Free Space Problem Linux Windows