disk space

as the subject says: there doesn't seem to be enough free disk space available to start windows. Elsewhere I was told to free up disk space on my windows disk. But how can I when I don't have access to the system disk?

Hi, I've run into a space limit problem with ubuntu 22.04 vm running on intel mac Ventura. I'm using Parallels Desktop 20 for Mac. After a reboot I adjusted disk capacity in the vm configuration, from the default 60 GB to 128 GB. The vm refused to boot. Again after some trial, I managed using...

So today I got the message I need to free up space to boot windows. Apparently I need to free up 2GB all of a sudden, despite not installing anything recently as far as I can remember. The problem is I only really have programs installed on windows, and now I can't access this to uninstall...

I've found an interesting quirk that I couldn't find mentioned elsewhere... From a cold boot, Finder reports that I have close to 300GB available disk, but as soon as I launch Paralells (without starting any VM) my available disk is reporting close to an extra 150GB While I'd love to think...

Hello, I have recently begun receiving this error and cannot start this Windows Virtual Machine on MacOS Sonoma Beta 2. I have 300GB free on a 1TB Mac Volume, and encounter no issues with a second Windows 11 Pro VM or other apps on the same Mac. The issue is confined to this particular VM which...

I've been happily using Parallels 17 Home for legacy Windows apps for a while. Now I'm trying to check if I can use Parallels Pro for academic research (Pandas, numpy etc). For my project, I need a VM with 70-80 GB RAM and 3-6TB disk to fit the datasets. 8 CPU should be enough. The "Compare...

Mac Finder shows guest windows 10 .PVM file size is 178GB. Having difficulty determining which folders and files account for the size on disk. Parallels and Windows Disk Optimizing and Disk Clean Up tools are helpful but do not provide detail necessary and sufficient to diagnose the problem...

Hey, folks. I keep getting this error: "There's not enough disk space available to start 'Windows 11'." I was screen recording, ran out of storage on my Mac, and the Windows VM wouldn't load. I cleared up 500 GB (I'd been recording a while) and the VM is still saying that I don't have enough...

I migrated my Boot Camp Windows 10 install to a Parallels VM. The Boot Camp was using roughly 140GB of space. The VM, though, is now showing that there is 790GB of Unallocated Space before the partition that contains my C Drive. That means I cannot expand my C Drive to add more space. When I...

Hello, I have a MacOS Big Sure beta VM under Parallels Desktop Version 16.0.1 (48919). The corresponding .pvm file is 52.19 GB, and Parallels report a 'Hard Disks' size of exactly the same (I removed all snapshots). But the guest OS reports 20.37 GB used. How can I reduce the size of the .pvm...

I saw that people make computers have MS-DOS and upgrade MS-DOS to Windows 7 or whatever without erasing the disk. I tried to make this on a VM. And when I reached Windows ME, it didn't upgrade to Windows XP - not enough space. I edited the drive to be 32GB, what do I see? Right! 2GB! Changed...

Hi, i have macos Mojave 14 and i resize a virtual machine disk (mojave too) At de begin, i have a virtual disk with 90Gb, after resize i have 150Gb but i can use it because the vm mojave say me that the new free disk is used but, i have diferent information depending the command i run, for...

I am experiencing an issue with disk space on my Mac when using Parallels. While using Parallels, I get a message saying that I need to free up space on my Mac in order to continue using it. So I use the "Free up disk space" tool to reclaim disk space from Parallels, and it seems to work fine...

I have a 900Gb Windows 10 virtual machine with 8 snapshots. After removing 4 of the snapshots the reclaimable space is still nil. Following the instructions on the various knowledgebase articles doesn't help. Could anybody advise? Regards, Christoph

When you add a file to your VM and then deletes it the virtual drive .hdd keeps using the space. So if you add a 10GB file and then delete it, your .hdd will increase in 10gb. I think this behaviour is very problematic. Is there any way of solving this issue?

As you can see in the picture, macOS 10.11 tells that I has used around 16GB of disk space. However, in host macOS, it shows the disk image is 37.5GB, which is more than double of the disk space usage in macOS 10.11 really using. I don't have any snapshot either. So where is the missing space...

Hi, I have 248 GB partition just for Win 10 in Parallels and have tried to install the Creators Update under Parallels 11 and now 13 but it just says "Not enough space" - will need 8GB . If I go to the Actions > Configure > Hardware > Hard Disk and try to increase the space allocated it refuses...

Hi! So I've been wondering lately, why Parallels is taking up so much space. When I check the space taken in MAC, it takes up almost 70GB of disk space. When I check every file in my C:\ disk in windows, I only use 32,6 GB. I'm aware that parallels itself take up disk space. But if I recall when...