Can't Compress VM

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hackmodford

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I believe I have an expanding disk.
It currently takes 31.82GB
When I look at the guest OS HDD it says 13.8 is being used.
I go to Virtual Machine>Compress and get this message

Hard disk 1 used by the virtual machine "Windows7" cannot be compressed.

The disk is either plain, or dynamic, or contains no data. Such disks cannot be compressed.
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I don't think I understand what's wrong.

Can anyone help? I'm using parallels 6

Also I don't know if this is important but I imported this VM from a bootcamp partition (then promptly deleted the bootcamp partition)
Also when I look at the HDD it says it's an expanding HDD. I've tried unchecking that box but it says I don't have enough drive space.
 
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Not resolved yet!

YanaYana,

Sorry - I was trying to say that the chkdsk showed no problems. The main problem - I can't compress/reduce the size of my VM- is still NOT resolved...

Still need help here...

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chkdsk should not essentially show any errors.

But i suggest you to check the snapshots - locate PVM file (usually in User/Documents/Parallels) show package content > locate hdd file > show package content and count the number of hds files. If you see more than 1 - you have snapshots and you need to merge them. You can do it manually: http://kb.parallels.com/en/9165
 
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Same Problem

YanaYana,

Yes - I already tried this approach, too. It does not solve my problem. I still can not resize my disk and I have manually deleted all snapshots...
 
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Yes,that is exactly the same thing and it took me 2 days to resolve this

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