Import Boot Camp and Cannot Resize new VM

[Greenwood Digital]

I recently imported my Boot Camp Windows XP installation to a new Parallels VM. The process went flawlessly. However, I migrated from Boot Camp to a new Parallels VM because my Boot Camp partition was running out of space. In the new VM I tried to expand the hard drive. However, it's not working properly at all.

When I go to Virtual Machine->Configure->Hardware->Hard DIsk 1 I get the following screen.

It will allow me to expand the disk, but not the file system. Additionally, the Hard Disk screen for this VM is very different from the other VMs I have. In those I can expand the hard drive and the file system.

How can I resize the filesystem of this VM? Is it a feature that is unavailable when you Import Boot Camp from the file menu?

I'm in a pinch and would love some help!

 

[Greenwood Digital]

Just some additional information. Although the Hard Disk image above shows a VM that is 256GB, the actual VM size is 10GB. The Windows XP installation only sees 13GB of hard drive space.

So, I don't know where the disconnect is or how to resolve this issue.

And, yes, I already deleted my original Boot Camp partition, so I only have the VM left to work with.

 

[Greenwood Digital]

I achieved what I wanted to do, but not without jumping through several hoops.

Lucky for me, I made a disk image of the hard drive and that preserved the all of the hard drive partitions including the Boot Camp partition. I lucked out again by having a 160GB hard drive lying around and reimaged the HD onto it. I booted into the 160GB HD, installed ParallelsDesktop-parallels-en_US-6.0.12090.660720. After activation Parallels found the Boot Camp partition and configured itself. I then went to the Import Boot Camp feature and it imported the Boot Camp partition into a new VM. However, the Hard Disk showed that it was 149GB and could not be resized. I then installed parallels transporter and exported the Boot Camp VM to an external drive. Then, I Imported the Transporter .pvm into Parallels.

This seemed to work, and I could resized the Hard Disk, however, in Windows the file system remained the same size and did not grow with the disk resizing. So I shut down the Imported Boot Camp VM and attached that VM's hard drive as a second drive to my Windows 7 VM. I booted the Windows 7VM and ran EASEUS Partition Magic Server Edition 8.0.1. I saw the one active 13GB partition and another partition that was unallocated. I resized the 13GB partition to take up all of the remaining space, and it worked without error. Then I rebooted the Windows 7 VM and checked the size of the Imported Boot Camp hard disk. It was 10GB used and 22GB free, so it worked (I resized the VM drive to 32GB). I shut down the Windows 7 VM and booted the Imported Boot Camp VM without any issues. It had to reboot once because it noticed a hardware change (I am assuming the resizing of the hard drive) and worked flawlessly.