Splitting VMware Disk Into 2GB Files

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Already create a VMware machine and want to split your disk into 2GB chunks so that you put it on FAT thumb drives?

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 1 destinationDisk.vmdk


If you have spaces in your path/filename make sure you include your path/filename in quotes:

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r "C:\path to file\source Disk.vmdk" -t 1 "C:\path to file\destination Disk.vmdk"


All of the research and testing that I have done shows no performance difference running with one large disk or multiple 2GB disks.

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