Increasing Virtual Machine

[drglass]

I am able to find a winxp.hdd file in my Macintosh HD/users/myname/documents/parallels/Microsoft XP/winxp.hdd when trying to resize my Windows partition.

Unfortunately, I get the error "the name is not valid when referring to the existing folder object. Please specify another name for the image file.

All I want to do is increase my partition size without reinstalling windows. Otherwise, it works fine in Parallels.

Thanks
Larry

[John@Parallels]

Please backup folder first
/users/yourname/documents/parallels/Microsoft XP/
after that check following
select winxp.hdd -ctrl -click - check can you see Show Package content menu?

[drglass]

Sorry, but how do you backup first? What exact steps? When you go to the subdirectory you mentioned, what is the originating folder? MacHD, Documents, Parallels? Exactly where do I start?

Thanks

[John@Parallels]

Copy your VM folder from Documents/Parallels/<VM name> to somewhere (external USB), on Desktop etc, just make sure you have enough place