VMware does not provide special software tools to consolidate the contents of multiple drives into a single drive.
To consolidate the contents of multiple drives, operating systems must be persuaded that software installed on these drives (for example, C:, D:, E:) will be moved to one drive (for example, C:) and that all files with stored paths to other drives (for example, D: and E:) would have to be changed to the first drive.
However, if you have data files on two of the three virtual disks (where the files could be safely moved), then it would be possible (as with a standard PC) to use the standard backup software provided with the guest operating system to:
Note: Quite a bit of time will be required to perform the above steps, so VMware does not recommend this procedure in general.
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