Running Parallels desktop V9 I have an installation of XP that I use for some older software. Even though I have it setup as an expanding disc it says I need more disc space for say disc defagmenter. I managed to disable expanding disc option and increase the disc size and it's now gone back to expanding disc but the larger size. Here's the problem. Windows still shows the original disc size and not later size that Parallels is saying it is now. Any suggestions on how to resolve this so that Windows recognises the larger size?
You need to resize the partition so XP recognizes the new size. You need a program like partition magic 8 or if you have a boot cd, you can boot the VM with the boot cd into a command prompt and run disk part from there. 1. Open Command Prompt 2. Type: diskpart 3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list volume Make note of the number of the basic volume you want to extend. 4. At the DISKPART prompt, type: select volume n Selects the basic volume, n, you want to extend into contiguous, empty space on the same disk. 5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: extend [size=n] Extends the selected volume by size=n megabytes (MB).
