How to delete HP recovery partitions?

[DavieInSF]

I used Parallels Transporter Agent to move a Windows 7 system to Parallels Desktop on my Mac from an HP PC. The HP's hard drive has 3 partitions: the main C: drive, a D: recovery partition, and an E: HP tools partition. Parallels Transporter faithfully reconstructed these partitions in the PVM bundle on my Mac.

I have no need for the D: and E: partitions, and I would like to delete them and get the disk space back (the D: partition is 12GB!). What is the best way to do this? Can I use Windows 7's disk manager? Will Parallels give me space back after disk manager deletes the D: and E: partitions?

I thought it would be best to check in advance since I don't want to mess up my VM

Thanks for the help!

Dave

 

[YanaB]

Hello!

Yes, you can use the Disk Manager to get rid of those partitions. In order to increase size of your C: drive you can resize the Virtual Hard Drive from the Virtual Machine Configuration pane. Please follow the steps below in order to resize the Virtual Hard Drive:
http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v6/docs/en/Parallels_Desktop_Users_Guide/23215.htm
('Editing the Disk' section).

 

[DavieInSF]

I used the W7 disk manager to delete the D: and E: partitions. This left them as unallocated space on the virtual HDD. So I also used W7 disk manager to increase the size of the C: partition to fill the unallocated space. Finally I used the Parallels "compress" command, and voila!, my .pvm file shrunk in size by over 12GB! All seems to be working fine now.

Thanks for the help!

Dave