expanding virtual machine

I needed to increase the size of my virtual machine (Windows XP).
I went to Virtual Machine/Configure/Hardware to expand 'hard Disk 1'.

I clicked 'edit' and dragged the slide to a new value and clicked 'apply'.

It appeared the system locked up. After about 10 minutes with nothing happening, I clicked 'Cancel'.

Now I can not use my Virtual Machine.

When trying to run, I get the message 'NTLDR is missing' and it tries to boot from the CD-ROM drive. I get the message 'There is no operating system installed in this virtual machine. Please install an operating system cd........'

Have I lost everything?
What if it does boot from the CD-ROM? What happens to the previous contents of the Virtual Machine?

 

If you have a backup of your VM, restore it.

 

I wish I did.

 

I am having a very similar issue. I cannot resize any drive image. It appears to be working and then when it is done the GUI shows that nothing has changed and when I try to use it, it is corrupted. Luckily I keep back up copies of my VM. Attempting command line tool to accomplish this task right now...hopefully it works.

Bullzie