Windows 7 disk cannot be shrunk

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by GerbenW, Jan 1, 2017.

  1. GerbenW

    GerbenW Member

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    I am running Parallels Desktop 11 on this Mac. I first noticed a problem with my Windows 7 VM when it started to report paging/virtual memory problems. I then found out the VM had grown to 64GB on my Mac. Windows 7 Disk Cleanup was able to cleanup 119GB on system stuff. I've had a few attempts before it seemed to be gone, but nowWindows reported 15-17GB free on the hard disk but Parallels says the disk cannot be compressed.

    I've had many attempts, cleanups, reboots, and sometimes Windows reports a full disk (and Parallels doesn't grow the disk beyond 64GB).

    Anybody familiar with this behaviour?

    This happened recently, after the last parallels 11 update (11.2.2), and of course some regular Windows 7 updates. No idea if this has anything to do with it.
     

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