Help with Mac Hard Disk Partition

Greetings, help would be greatly appreciated.

I just installed Parallels on my Mac Book Pro. Then I installed Windows XP and it reserved 32 GB of my MAC disk for the Windows disk. This is unecessary. So I recreated the virtual XP disk to only take up 4 GB. That is fine and working great now. But my MAC drive still is saying that the original 32 GB is being occupied.

Do I have to reformat my MAC drive? If Windows XP is only taking up 4 GB, then where is the other 28GB that i can't find?


Does this make sense? Please help.

Thanks so much in advance.

 

Do you have a partition or a virtual disk?

 

thanks...


Im not quite sure.

I think its a virtual drive.

because when i open up the disk utilities in the utilities folder it doesnt show that the Hard disk is partitioned.

so it must be a virtual drive

 

is there a way to manage virtual drives? and edit them?



tx.

 

a 4 gb VM will soon run into trouble - out of space

would you buy a laptop with a 4gb hard disk?

30 gb is a sensible minimum
with about 1024 RAm out of 2gb

and save your data only in shared folders on the Mac OS side

clone the VM to back it up weekly

Hugh W

 

My question for you then would be if you have a plain or expanding disk.

If you have an expanding disk, Actions -> Run Parallels Compressor should help your space issue out.

If you have a plain disk, you can resize it via Parallels Image Tool.

As for RAM, I disagree with Hugh, 768MB is typically what I find the sweet spot to be, unless you use RAM intensive applications on the Windows side.

I use a 10 GB disk, I don't have any games, no personal docs on the PC side, it just accesses information from a server for me, runs a few apps I need it for, etc.

Hugh makes a good point about backing up though, I highly recommend you follow it.