Increasing Hard Disk Size

[BudleyS]

I increased the hard disk size. Each time I get errors that the disk is corrupt. Followed instructions at article http://kb.parallels.com/en/113241 to run prl_disk_tool. Did that successfully. Then the error is Missing Operating System. I've gone through this procedure 3 times and it's taken over half of my day. How do I reliably increase the disk size?

Parallels 9 Build 9.0.24172 (Revision 951362; Tuesday, December 3, 2013)
Windows Vista
Mac OSX 10.6.8

Thanks,
Bud

 

[BudleyS]

Nothing? No one has an alternate method of increasing the disk size since the standard method simply does not work?


Thanks again.
Bud

 

[BudleyS]

OK, since no one can or will answer this, how about this? Is it possible to create a new VM with a static hard drive, or add a second, larger drive to the existing VM then clone or copy the old drive to the new drive or the new VM?

TIA,
Bud

 

[Looran@Parallels]

Hi Bud,

To give more hard disk space to your Windows Virtual Machine, please follow the steps outlined on the link below:

http://kb.parallels.com/113972

Please note that you would need to check your Virtual Hard disk for errors before proceeding.

Also to initialize a secondary disk to an existing Virtual Machine, please follow page 194 on the Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac user guide:

http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v9/ga/docs/en_US/Parallels Desktop User's Guide.pdf

Thanks,
Looran