Change disk size

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by dhjdhj, Apr 7, 2006.

  1. dhjdhj

    dhjdhj Hunter

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    Where's the image tool that the program mentions can be used to change the size of a disk image?

    David Jameson
     
  2. Ahmedbm

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    The user guide states the following "The current version of Parallels Workstation for Mac OS X does not include Parallel Image Tool."

    Well that sucks because i just realized that i need an extra 4 Gigs to my VM partition :(
     
  3. anshar

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    It will definetly be included in GA release. Because both GA Linux and Windows versions includes it.
     
  4. Ahmedbm

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    I looked into the advanced Hard Drive settings it states as being Increasing...does that mean the more i put on it the more it allocates?
    So i can actually ignore the HD size and just continue installing everything i want?
     
  5. Nick

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    I had the same problem and had to "recreate" the virtual disk. I lost everything in the process but I told it to allocate 40GB the second time around. Since it only uses what it needs you can set it to a high number and it will increase the disk allocation UNTIL it reaches that size.
     
  6. Ahmedbm

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    yeah well im too lazy to reinstall windows, even though its a fresh install :p
     
  7. anshar

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    You can use Acronis True Image or Semantec Ghost to transfer disk image from one disk to another.
     
  8. mdickey

    mdickey Junior Member

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    Ghost

    Have you had any success with this? I tried using a Ghost 8.0 boot disk and it caused my MacBook to reboot (not the VM, but OS X) :(
     
  9. dgranda

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    I can boot with the Acronis rescue disk. It is currently restoring (I believe) a backup I made from when I was running xp on mac. It is very very very slow though.
     
  10. mike3k

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    Since I have a real Linux box, can I use the Linux tool to resize a Mac virtual hdd?
     

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