Autoexpanding harddrive
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Apr 30, 2006, 04:36 AM
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robertcerny Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 9 |
Autoexpanding harddrive Hi folks, when I installed Parallels WM Beta 1, I choose 4GB expanding harddrive. Now I'm using beta6 and the drive is almost full. I used the new image tool to make it bigger - 6.5GB but WinXP still display it as 3.99GB. What am I missing? __________________ Robert Cerny http://www.fontexplorer.cz |
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Apr 30, 2006, 12:02 PM
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RussGJohnson Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 11 |
What I did was to download a free Linux rescue disk that has a full suite of tools, including a partition magic clone. Google this file: "systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.18.iso" and download it. I then attached the .iso image to the Parallels virtual pc CD Rom drive and changed the boot order to CdRom first. Be sure to select " connect on startup". When you restart the pc, it should boot to the rescue disk. Launch the partition program and resize your partition. This worked like a charm for me, as now windows can see my new, larger partition. |
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Apr 30, 2006, 12:13 PM
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gary Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 27 |
A really really nice addition to would be real resizing with Parallels, making the image and partition bigger or smaller. There was a time when I installed XP, all the updates, cleaned it up, and then cloned it to a less than 1 gig partition to save space. If Parallels could at least expand the image and partition size without a tool like Partition Magic and it could shrink images of unused space, maybe that'd be good enough. It would be great. |
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Apr 30, 2006, 03:04 PM
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engrProf Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 34 |
Thanks RussGJohnson: Now I have free space! Quote:
0. MAKE A COPY OF YOUR HARD DRIVE IMAGE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!! Run Parallels Image Tool to expand the maximum size of your hard drive image. Windows won't see any more space. You still need to repartition. 1. Go to http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page 2. I recommend you read the FAQ page. Download the .iso image (the right one to download is the link that says x86) 3. Open Parallels and click on CD/DVD-ROM. Select "Use image file" radio button. Click on the [...] button and browse to navigate to the place where you downloaded the .iso file. Select it and click "open." Make sure "Enabled" and "Connect at startup" are selected. 4. Click "OK" and you are back to the console view. 5. Click on "Boot sequence" and check "CD-ROM, Hard Disk, Floppy." 6. Start the VM. You'll see a System Rescue welcome screen, and it will tell you to press "Enter" to boot. Press "Enter." It will boot into Linux. There are some choices you'll be asked to make. I just accepted all the defaults. 7. When it is done booting, it will give you a root@sysresccd /root %" prompt. Type run_qtparted at the prompt. (The instructions further up the the screen tell you to do this if you want to run the Partition Magic clone) 8. After one more default to accept, a nice GUI interface comes up. You should see your hard drive image in the left-hand window. Click on it. It will show you the partitions on your hard drive in the right-hand window. There should be a little Windows icon next to your startup partition. Under the "operations" menu click "resize" and use the arrows or type numbers to resize your startup partition. Click "OK." 9. Now under the "device" menu click "commit." This will resize your partition. 10. Quit and power off your machine. Go back to the CD-DVD-ROM options screen and de-enable at startup, and you may as well de-select the .iso file image. 11. Start your VM and it will boot into Windows. You will have a resized partition and plenty of free space! As a note, after I did this, Windows knew I had done something funny, because it ran chkdsk. I let it run and everything checked out OK. It started up fine and I now have lots of free space, and better yet, a way to give myself even more free space if I need it. 12. Be a nice person and click on "Make a Donation" on the System Resuce website. Partition Magic costs $18.99. You just saved yourself $18.99. So give them something less than that just to say thanks. THANK YOU, RussGJohnson!! |
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Apr 30, 2006, 05:19 PM
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RussGJohnson Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 11 |
Your welcome. Nice job on documenting all of the details of the process!!! |
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Jun 12, 2006, 09:10 AM
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sassoon Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 52 |
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I know this is not parallels related, but can any of you point me to a good partition utiulity for OSX? I ahd to kill my boot camp partition since it was not big enough and cannot recreate it since I get the stupid error some files cannot be moved. I know what the issue is, and really do not want to image my system, wipe it out and start over. I know that diskwarrior could have taken care of this problem, but they do not have an intel based solutiuon yet. Could this systemrescue CD do what I need? Thanks in advance. Mike V. __________________ Mike Vidal |
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Apr 30, 2006, 02:18 PM
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gardel Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 5 |
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Jun 13, 2006, 02:16 AM
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veggiedude Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 98 |
I can't recommend auto-expanding drives. When I converted mine back to being a static drive, XP now boots up to 300 times faster, and things are just snappier and seems a lot faster now. |
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