Repartitioning virtual HDD after importing Boot Camp Partition

Hi,

Mac OS X 10.6.7
Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac
MacBook Pro, 500GB HD

I did read the sticky post before posting this message, in particular http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=16064&page=8, joevt's message at the top of the page. Hopefully my understanding of his post is correct, please see below.

When I installed and configured Boot Camp, I accepted the defaults, so I have approx. 465GB for Mac OS X, and 32GB for Windows 7 in Boot Camp.

I've imported my Boot Camp partition into a "normal" virtual machine, so Hard Disk 1 is pointing to "Imported My Boot Camp.hdd". However, I need more (virtual) hard disk space than the 32GB allocated in "Imported My Boot Camp.hdd". I suppose I could add a virtual D: hdd, but it gets messy with programs installed on both C: and D:.

When I use Mini Tool Partition Wizard Home Edition 6.0 to examine my virtual HHD from within Windows 7, it shows a 465GB hard disk, with 4 partitions, and the Windows partition "at the end" with 32GB.

I assume the import process has partitioned the virtual disk to mimic the physical disk, but copied only the Windows partition (otherwise the virtual hdd would be much bigger).

I also assume I can delete these other partitions in the virtual hdd and move/resize my Windows partition. IOW, there are no "pointers" back to the physical hard disk.

Can someone confirm whether this understanding is correct?

(Off topic): Finally, if I did want to resize my physical Boot Camp partition, can I do this with the native Disk Utility application?

Thanks!

Scott

 

Does anyone from Parallels monitor these forums, or should I just open a support track for every minor question I have about Parallels?

 

So I opened a support track with Parallels, and can confirm that re-partitioning the imported Boot Camp partition had no adverse effect on the physical hard disk (as I expected, but just wanted to be sure). I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to delete the empty partitions, then resize the Boot Camp partition to the full 465GB virtual disk size.

IMO, importing the Boot Camp *partition* should only import the *partition*, not clone the entire physical hard disk. That is how other partitioning tools would do it.