Expand in Virtual machine's exsiting hard disk

Hello,
I have server 2008R2 environment, I am running virtual machines on Hyper V, one of my VM has one drive(Drive C) of 40 GB, now I want to expand this C drive to 60 GB, whats the steps, kindly Share.
Swaprakash..

Hi ,
Please follow the link below mentioned by Tim  :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/266.how-to-increase-the-vhd-size-in-hyper-v-2008-r2.aspx
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