How I resized a Windows partition
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May 3, 2006, 09:23 PM
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jeliker Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 22 |
How I resized a Windows partition Moved from How Parallels "Desktop for Mac" I successfully resized my Windows 2003 installation today using the following process.
I don't know if DISKPART can be used on Windows XP, etc. but I know that you can download it from Microsoft. Google diskpart windows download. As mentioned, this worked for me though I cannot guarantee that this will work in all situations. |
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May 7, 2006, 04:39 AM
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BenInBlack Senior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 374 |
:D :D I what to give you a big thank you for these instructions. I can personally vouch for the fact that they work with Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 I just went from 8gig to 20gig. Just some notes to help those that also want to do this. 1. When you do "List Volumns" you will be hit with 2 volumns that say the same size, so remember you've setup your backup copy as the boot so that will be the C: and you added your resized one and that will most likely be the E: (D: being the CD/DVD). Here is what my "List Volume" looked like at the point just before extending DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 D CD-ROM 0 B Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7995 GB Healthy System Volume 2 E NTFS Partition 7995 GB Healthy System at this point i did the "select volume 2" and then did the extend |
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May 8, 2006, 12:50 PM
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MarkHolbrook Senior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 351 |
Worked beautiful. Thanks a million! |
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Jun 26, 2006, 04:34 PM
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darren Junior Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 2 |
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need a little help. i can not seem to get the new virtual drive to be listed as volume 2. It is listed under volume 1 as a foreign disk. nNy help would be appreciated |
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May 20, 2007, 11:38 PM
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rdean Junior Member Join: Apr 2007 Posts: 26 |
Thanks.... Great thread. With the GPart and the initial instructions I was able to do this quite easily. Though it did take some research to figure out how to create an ISO disk on the Mac, so I learned somethng new along the way. |
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May 22, 2007, 04:59 PM
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Ellefsen Junior Member Join: May 2007 Posts: 1 |
please forgive me please forgive me. i have tried to understand this entire thread.. im a new parallels and Mac user..and i find it all very hard to understand! my first problem is a simple one (i think ...) when i try to use the Image Tool i say that the image Tool should operate with the hard Disk. then i choose to increase the size of the virtual hardisk then i have to select a source hard disk image and specity its new size. however the hdd file does not excist. any idea on what to do? i think im somewhat confused because my english isnt that good, so its hard to figure out what exaclty you mean. can anyone help me terribly sorry for being troublesome. :-( |
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May 25, 2007, 01:40 AM
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mthibode Junior Member Join: May 2007 Posts: 1 |
Look for a file ending with ".hdd". This is on your hard drive if you're running Parallels now. (probably under /Users/Library/Parallels/) "YourHardDrive.hdd" is the file that you are asking image tool to increase. Another successful gparted customer. You don't need to make a copy of the disk image-- especially if you already have a backup on another disk (this is an attractive option if you don't have the room on your hard drive to duplicate your HDD). GPARTED Option: Resize your parallels image with Parallel's Image Tool located in \Applications\Parallels\ (Takes a few minutes depending on how large you want to go) Download the live cd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php Get one of the known-good distributions, i.e., version 0.2.5 or 0.3.1 (32 MB download takes 1-5 minutes of broadband) Put it anywhere on your mac's hard disk (Don't be tempted to get the Live-USB because you'll boot from the .iso image and not from a regular cd) ----------- Open Parallels and go to your virtual machine settings under the edit menu Select your CD/DVD drive and uncheck the enable switch, making room for the ISO image startup Add a different virtual CD drive, enable it and set IDE connection to 0:1 (affirm the prompt that Parallels gives you) Select the .iso image that you downloaded earlier as the mount point for your new CD drive Change your boot settings to indicate booting from the cd drive instead of the hard disk ------------ Boot your VM from the live cd iso Select default values until gparted starts (gparted will start automatically and is a program to expand drives etc.) (Takes about 1 minute) Select partition to resize (then you can drag the bar to the right to extend the available space) Resize Hit apply Quit the program Disconnect iso and return to original boot settings under the edit: virtual machine menu item Reboot Check Disk will probably run automatically If I was a little more saavy, I'd write an applescript that does this. |
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Jun 20, 2007, 05:34 PM
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Rappy28 Junior Member Join: Jun 2007 Posts: 2 |
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I did a spotlight search for ".hdd" and it did not find anything relevant. What is the .hdd and where can I find it ? :confused: A fast answer (before Saturday if possible) would be greatly appreciated. |
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May 8, 2006, 10:40 PM
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BenInBlack Senior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 374 |
After i installed beta 6 i found that parallel had changed it an put a folder that contains the image tools and parallel.
__________________ Parallels Build: v3 beta build 5580 on Leopard Running: Mac Mini - DuoCore 1.66Ghz with 2 gig of Ram. PW: Windows XP Pro set to use 512Meg Memory, 20gig Primary HD miniStack: 360gig with 40gig second HD for PW |
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May 9, 2006, 08:50 AM
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jeliker Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 22 |
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May 11, 2006, 09:23 PM
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pmbooks1 Junior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 12 |
I've gotten as far as resizing the original HDD, but am stumped from 3 forward, changing VM profile to boot off of the copied HDD image. If this is found in the Configuration Editor, I'm not sure what to do. You guys must already be Windows saavy (or programming smart). Any help would be appreciated, thanks, Paul |
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May 11, 2006, 11:04 PM
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jeliker Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 22 |
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Now, Click the Add... button at the bottom, left side of the screen. Choose "Hard Disk" then click Next. Choose "Use an existing hard disk image" then click Next. Browse to the original, resized image file then click Finish. Now, you'll see a "Hard Disk 2" entry on the left on the Configuration Editor page. Click OK to close the Configuration Editor window. Start your VM and follow steps 4-8 in my original post. Shutdown your Windows guest OS and wait for the VM property page to appear. Once it does, click on the Edit button to display the Configuration Editor again. Highlight "Hard Disk 2" then click Remove. Select "Hard Disk 1" and browse to and select the original, resized image file under the Image File field on the right side of the screen. Click OK to close the Configuration Editor window. Click Save to update your VM properties. Restart your VM and you should see that your guest OS drive is now up to the size you reset it to. |
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May 12, 2006, 03:37 PM
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BatmanPPC Junior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 7 |
You don't need to make a copy of the disk image. Download the live cd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php Boot your VM from the live cd iso Select default values until gpartd starts Select partition to resize Resize and apply Disconnect iso Reboot Windows should run chkdsk automatically. |
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