Autoexpanding harddrive

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robertcerny

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Hi folks,
when I installed Parallels WM Beta 1, I choose 4GB expanding harddrive. Now I'm using beta6 and the drive is almost full. I used the new image tool to make it bigger - 6.5GB but WinXP still display it as 3.99GB. What am I missing?
 
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robertcerny said:
I hope that VirtualPC is not the ideal model for Parallels
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Nice come back. You obviously don't understand the implecation of making what you are asking. Parallels makes good Virtualization product.. not a partitioning product. End of story.
 
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the instructions are clear. but i have a question. when i chooose a partition to resize, the resize option in the operations menu is dimmed. is there anything i need to do to activate it?
 
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RussGJohnson said:
What I did was to download a free Linux rescue disk that has a full suite of tools, including a partition magic clone. Google this file: "systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.18.iso" and download it. I then attached the .iso image to the Parallels virtual pc CD Rom drive and changed the boot order to CdRom first. Be sure to select " connect on startup". When you restart the pc, it should boot to the rescue disk. Launch the partition program and resize your partition.

This worked like a charm for me, as now windows can see my new, larger partition.
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Russ or anyone:

I know this is not parallels related, but can any of you point me to a good partition utiulity for OSX? I ahd to kill my boot camp partition since it was not big enough and cannot recreate it since I get the stupid error some files cannot be moved. I know what the issue is, and really do not want to image my system, wipe it out and start over.

I know that diskwarrior could have taken care of this problem, but they do not have an intel based solutiuon yet.

Could this systemrescue CD do what I need?

Thanks in advance.

Mike V.
 
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I followed the instructions exactly, but it hangs on "Scanning all disk partitions" after I click the "Commit" button. How long should this step take?

I killed the image once and restarted it. The same occurred on the restart.



.brit
 
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Fixed it!!! I restarted the Linux boot again, this time resizing the partition once again, even though it still defaulted to the new size. This time the commit succeeded.


.brit
 
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I can't recommend auto-expanding drives. When I converted mine back to being a static drive, XP now boots up to 300 times faster, and things are just snappier and seems a lot faster now.
 
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