Cannot reclaim disk space

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natethelen

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Info
  • I am running latest El Capitan (Mac OS X 10.11.4), latest Parallels Desktop (11.1.3), latest Windows 10 Home.
  • Disk Usage according to Windows: 11.5 GB
  • Disk Usage according to Mac: 47.37 GB
Things I have tried
History
  • It was a Windows 7 VM that I upgraded to Windows 10. At one point VM Mac disk usage was 100+ GB. Deleted a bunch of software/data on Windows, deleted a bunch of snapshots, did the trim support, got it down to 47 GB. Now want to get it the rest of the way
Ideas?
 
I just realized that the hdd file (which is actually a folder) has 2 files:
  1. Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{GUID_1}.hds (which is the 11GB I expect)
  2. Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{GUID_2}.hds (which is 35GB)
Any idea what this 2nd file is? Can I just delete it? I am going to try and do
prl_disk_tool merge
first
 
natethelen said:
I just realized that the hdd file (which is actually a folder) has 2 files:
  1. Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{GUID_1}.hds (which is the 11GB I expect)
  2. Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{GUID_2}.hds (which is 35GB)
Any idea what this 2nd file is? Can I just delete it? I am going to try and do
prl_disk_tool merge
first
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The other .hdd file must be a virtual machine hard drive from an older VM. If you delete the hdd you might end up loosing data. And glad that you are able to reclaim the space.
 
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