Resizing Parallels 3 hard drive the easy way
06-26-2007, 07:20 AM
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Randyp Junior Member Join: Jun 2007 Posts: 3 |
Resizing Parallels 3 hard drive the easy way This foolproof method requires that you download a 15 day demo of a great hard drive cloning package called "Acronis True Image 10 Home." Here's the link (the first file in the list -- the English language version -- is the one I used): http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/ Then follow these steps. This method works just fine with the expanding (rather than only fixed, although it works with those as well) Parallels hard drive image, and the resultant image remains expanding. This temporarily requires a lot of hard disk space (because you're duplicating the original drive image and THEN creating the new bigger drive image as well), by the way, so that's the only downfall. 1) Duplicate the Parallels hard drive to be expanded in the Mac Finder. To be clear, you don't use Parallels to duplicate the original hard drive; rather, in the Mac Finder, you click the icon once, then select "Duplicate" from the Finder's "File" menu. For our purposes, the duplicated hard drive will become your "from" disk. 2) Then, open Parallels, and edit the existing virtual machine configuration in Parallels -- and then add the hard drive, attaching the image you created in Step 1 as hard disk 2. Now your Parallels virtual machine has two [identical] hard drives attached but will boot from the original -- but don't boot it yet. 3) Next, while still editing the virtual machine configuration, create a new hard drive (this time within the Parallels configuration editor), probably a bigger one (selecting "expanding" image is fine). Attach it as hard disk 3. Designate it as bootable if that is an option. This becomes the "to" disk -- the one you'll ultimately keep and use as your expanded drive. Now, the Parallels virtual machine will have three hard drives attached when it's booted -- two identical ones and a blank one that doesn't yet show up in the Windows explorer (because it isn't formatted yet) when the virtual machine is booted. 4) Boot the virtual machine. Then install the Acronis True Image 10 Home demo to the original hard drive. At this point neither the copied hard drive, which is disk #2 (the "from" image), nor the blank bigger one that won't show up when Windows is running (because it's not yet formatted -- the "to" image), have been modified yet by any action you've taken so far -- they've only been created. 5) Then, launch Acronis True Image, and use the "CLONE HARD DRIVE" option, designating the 2nd disk as the "from" image and the 3rd disk as the "to" image. 6) Finally, when complete, shut down the virtual machine, edit the configuration to boot from what was the third ("to") hard disk image, and disconnect the two somewhat identical smaller ones ("somewhat identical" because only hard drive 1 has the Acronis True Image demo on it). Note that the Acronis demo was not installed to the new hard drive. 7) Once it's determined that the new expanded hard disk is okay and bootable, the other two disk images can be discarded. Done! Until Parallels releases an official method for dealing with v3 hard drive images, I hope this assists someone. Randyp |
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