LorenFinkelstein
Member
Ok, so you have expanded your hard drive with the image tool and now, even though Parallels Workstation thinks that your hard drive is 10 gigs, from within Windows, your C drive is still only 4 gigs.
You do have the extra hard drive space, but Windows doesn't see it as part of your C drive. It is just sitting out there as unpartitioned space.
There are solutions out there for screwing around with your partitions to get all the extra space into your C drive. But, I am here to tell you that you don't need to.
It is a very simple matter to format that unpartitioned space as a new drive. Make it your D drive or your E drive. You can save data or install files on that drive as easily as you would on your C drive. Just like having multiple partitions on a Mac. There is no harm in having the new space as a separate drive.
Here are the instructions for Win XP. Haven't used 2K in a while, but I think it's pretty close to the same.
Quite simple, go to "Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management"
In Computer Management, click on Disk Management. If you want to make your new space your D drive (which would be normal) then click on the CD/DVD drive with the right mouse button (or control click) and change the drive letter to E. Then you can right click on the unformatted space and make it a partition that will be your D drive.
It's fairly simple and straightforward.
Once that is done you can start saving data or installing programs on that D drive. I created a "Program Files" folder on the D drive, so that when I do any software installs, I just have to change C to D and I am all set.
Thanks to the Parallels team for such a great program. I pre-ordered mine a few days ago.
You do have the extra hard drive space, but Windows doesn't see it as part of your C drive. It is just sitting out there as unpartitioned space.
There are solutions out there for screwing around with your partitions to get all the extra space into your C drive. But, I am here to tell you that you don't need to.
It is a very simple matter to format that unpartitioned space as a new drive. Make it your D drive or your E drive. You can save data or install files on that drive as easily as you would on your C drive. Just like having multiple partitions on a Mac. There is no harm in having the new space as a separate drive.
Here are the instructions for Win XP. Haven't used 2K in a while, but I think it's pretty close to the same.
Quite simple, go to "Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management"
In Computer Management, click on Disk Management. If you want to make your new space your D drive (which would be normal) then click on the CD/DVD drive with the right mouse button (or control click) and change the drive letter to E. Then you can right click on the unformatted space and make it a partition that will be your D drive.
It's fairly simple and straightforward.
Once that is done you can start saving data or installing programs on that D drive. I created a "Program Files" folder on the D drive, so that when I do any software installs, I just have to change C to D and I am all set.
Thanks to the Parallels team for such a great program. I pre-ordered mine a few days ago.