I am having terrible trouble trying to reduce the size of my virtual disk. I have tried from within my windows vm (XPSP2) using parallels tools. I have also tried from the config page with VM shutdown. I have had the exact same problem in all version of 3.0 (previous betas, GA, and the new beta). I have about 30GB in the virtual drive, I'd like to be able to recover some of that (like I could in 2.X)! Here is the error I get when I try from the config page (using the compact button)--the error occurs immediately after pressing the button: "Process of compacting of the virtual hard disk /Users/scott/Library/Parallels/Microsoft Windows XP/Transporter1.hdd was abnormally terminated due to the unrecoverable error." If I do it from Tools inside the VM, it goes through the whole "preparing" (or whatever) process for about an hour and then craps out with a similar error. This drive was a 2.5 that was upgraded to 3.0. Any advice? Ideas? Thoughts? Thanks! -Scott
Same issue Here have exact same issue, i had pervious version (no problems) 3.0 xp crashes on me all the time cant compact, and support does not really care. Some applications not working, and HD grow to 32GB too much Help
Count Me in and we're not the only ones! I also get the "Process of compacting of the virtual hard disk /Users/.../Documents/Parallels/..../winxp.hdd was abnormally terminated due to the unrecoverable error." whenever I try to compact the drive. I'm doing it from the config editor / hard disk 1 / advanced / compact button. I wonder if this has to do with the way our hd was originally setup? Mine was a transporter from a WinXP box. It was during this time that I was originally using it that my Parallels updated to build 5160. I've also been trying to get the Image Tool to break my file into 2 gb chunks and I get this bizarre error: "Image Tool is unable to process this file. The format of the hard disk image file you selected is not supported in this version. Please open the virtual machine that is using this virtual hard disk in Parallels Desktop to change the format." Bizarre since i've been running this disk image daily for several weeks in the Parallels desktop. I've tried changing it to a plain disk image but the partition is 71 GB and there's no way the 120 GB HD on my macbook will handle that. So I get a related message. I think i'll try converting the disk BACK to the "old format" and then see if I can't change it back to the new. In my view its apparent that i'm running a 3.0 5160 build disk, but there's some parts of parallels tools that don't believe me! Chris
Forgot to add that others to have had this issue see the closed thread at: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=15911&highlight=compact Chris
Yes--I am STILL having this problem. It worked perfectly in 2.5.x and has been broken since the early betas of 3.x. PARALLELS! HELP! -Scott
Good news - if you suspect your disk image is less than it ought to be -- CBELL has posted a slick, free, and relatively painless solution to place your existing virtual image into a newly created virtual image without reloadind windows (and activating, etc...) see their post of 9/24/2007 at http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=83580#post83580 I am now able to compact, compress, and disk image.
