Has anyone successfully resized a VM?

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TheMajor

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I've been struggling with a pitifully small virtual C: partition on a Vista VM, and so I tried to expand the hard disk.

Happily (as will become clear), I took a backup copy of the .pvm package first, then selected <Virtual Machine>, <Configure...>, <Hardware> tab, <Hard Disk 1>, <Edit...> then dragged the slider to 64.2 GB from its original 31.2GB ("Resize file system" and "Expanding disk" were both ticked/checked).

An appropriate amount of progress bar movement took place, and all seemed to be well. Then I noticed that the Hardware tab still said "Expanding disk, 31.2GB", but I assumed it might refresh itself the next time I started the configure tool.

Then I attempted to boot the VM, only to be hit with a BSOD "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error. I restarted the VM, with the same result. I've just restored the backup .pvm, and it's working again. However, I still have a too-small C: drive.

So, has anyone actually managed to resize his or her virtual hard drive? If so, what's the secret?

(I should have said that I'm using the latest build [14922] of Desktop 7.)

For those who've read this far, many thanks.
 
I've searched and seen others.. I have also tried all the ideas outline here and with Microsoft to fix the VM. I expect to speak to someone today at Parallels about it. I didn't do anything odd, just increased the disk size from the PD7 GUI.. one thing that might matter is that I did "Run Out of Space" in the VM before I increased the size.. perhaps that corrupts it..

There has to be more.. I am running the latest vesion of PD7 (Just Upgraded) and MacOS X 10.7.2 - 2.2GHz Core i7 with 8GB RAM.
 
I've done this many times on Parallels 6 and earlier. Been using Parallels since version 3.

Haven't tried it on Parallels 7, but I am having another problem on Parallels 7.

Note that I have experienced bugs with Parallels upgrades in the past.

Sorry this doesn't answer your question directly.
 
i suggest you to run check disk - it might help (it helped me several times when i was in a session with users with this kind of problem).
So, start you virtual machine (backup - you are right. Don't forget this time as well). Go to start > run > cmd.
put the following:
chkdsk /r
than type
Y
and restart the VM.
Wait until checking is done and try again
 
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