Extra Volume Showed Up in Windows

Apologies for the length of the post below, however I want to provide as much background as possible.

First, I used Boot Camp and partitioned my Mac with a 10gb section for Windows XP. Went through the entire Boot Camp setup and Windows setup processes and I had a working Boot Camp installation.

Then, I installed Parallels and setup a VM with the Boot Camp disk, at this point all is well. Later on, I started to run out of disk space so I decided I would move to a standard VM and dump the Boot Camp part.

Within the Boot Camp VM, I installed Transporter and created a new Standard VM from my Boot Camp VM and saved it onto my Z: drive (which is my home directory from XP).

So far so good.

After using the Standard VM for a few days, I felt confident that there were no problems so I dumped the Boot Camp partition and the corresponding Parallels VM.

Space was still an issue so when I launched the Disk Management Adminstrative Tool, I saw there were two volumes listed, in this order (see attached disks.jpg):
1) Volume Unallocated space of 101 GB
2) Volume C: FAT32 space of 10 GB (the System volume)

What I would like to do now, is expand my C: drive to about 20 GB and continue about my business.

I tried using gparted but no dice on that front (though I tried a version which was known to be wonky, I am going to try 0.3.1.1 and update the post).

I'm concerned that gparted won't work because the unallocated space is **before** my C: drive.

Can I simply do the following:
- remove the unallocated space entirely using some tool or by compacting?
- use the Image Tool to expand my VM HD to 20 GB?

Any thoughts, insights, comments, etc are appreciated. I'm not in a major bind yet but the space issue is becoming annoying.

 

What kind of disk are you using? Expanding or Flat?

 

As far as I know it is an expanding disk, though I never specified. I simply ran transporter from Windows and then Imported the resulting VM image into Parallels on the Mac.

 

I would try compressing.

 

Yeah, I tried that and booted the VM. The extra volume was still there.

I was considering using the Parallels Image Tool to expand the image. My reasoning is as follows: If the image tool adds space to the image **after** the existing C: volume, then I should be able to use gparted to extend my current volume....?

The only problem is that my current C: volume is FAT32. I have no idea how that even happened...

Any thoughts?