RAM Allocation Problems after HD Cloning - Version 5608

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Hi together

I use Parallels Desktop Version 5608 with OSX Leopard 10.5.4 on a MacBook with 4 GB RAM. I use 3 different VMs with Windows XP and Vista on it. (No Bootcamp).

Yesterday i CLONED my Harddrive with CarbonCopyCloner because i use now a bigger one.

Since then i can only allocate 1024 MB Ram to the VMs, everything above get the error Message:

"

Parallels Desktop failed to allocate the specified amount of memory.
Please restart Parallels Desktop and try again.
To avoid this problem in the future choose from the menu: Parallels Desktop > Preferences. On the Memory tab select the "Enable virtual memory preallocation" option.

"

I read some posts about it but nothing helped. I did the complete reinstallation thing like in http://kb.parallels.com/en/4790 posted, but it did not help.

I have plenty of space free on my new HD

Why i have this problem only with the new HD inside?
What changed when i cloned the drive?

I need more RAM for my VMs, 1024 is not enough

Thank you very much for help

Regards

JC
 
hi john

i tried that out but it doesn't help. I think its not a problem of bad aliases or links, the problem is that parallels does not allocate more than 1024mb RAM to a VM suddenly.....
 
Have you checked the settings under Parallels>Preferences>Memory?
 
Yes i did all the changes that was talked about in other postes about this problem.....It must be a parallels problem, but i don't understand why it worked perfectly till i changed my HD....
 
John said disk but it can also be partition (because I think there's only one disk on the machine).
 
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