Expanding Drive Not Expanding

[na9d]

Last week I just got Parallels finally set up on my MacBook Pro. It's working great, but I have a problem that is happening with my Windows system drive image file.

I set it up originally as a 4 Gig expanding drive. I misunderstood the expanding meaning and thought that it would start at 4 Gig and grow from there. I soon found out that the space setting of 4 Gig was the maximum. So I stopped the program and changed the file size using the image utility to 6 Gig. Everything in parallels shows the size as 6 GIg maximum.

But the size of the drive in Windows will not grow beyond the 4 Gig originally set. What is wrong and why won't it grow?

Thanks,

Jon

 

[dosers]

That's a windows issues - Your drive IS expanding - check disk manager in XP. The problem is that Windows basic discs cannot expand (or shrink) dynamically. And you cannot make your boot drive dynamic (you 'can', but it doesn't give you the ability that a newly created disk would).
It's really a Windows 'problem', and there's no good solution other than creating another drive in windows. You can use the SAME parallel expanding drive for it, or a new one.

cheers,
dan

 

[joem]

This has been discussed and solved many times. Search the forums and you'll find several ways to deal with it. It's easily done.

 

[na9d]

Thanks for the udpate. I didn't realize that it was a Windoze issue. The first time I created the drive at 4 Gig, it expanded up to that just fine.

Is there any way to clone what I've installed to a new drive? I don't have enough disk space to create a second Windows image file. Rather I'd just like to take and put what I have now into a new image file that will expand to the proper size.

Or am I asking for too much?