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Re: Help. 20 GB NTSF Disk Space have 30 GB VM - Have 54.99 GB left on MAC HD

WoodyZ — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:16:46 GMT

Have a look at: Resizing Virtual Disks With Step by Step Instructions

Re: Help. 20 GB NTSF Disk Space have 30 GB VM - Have 54.99 GB left on MAC HD

RDPetruska — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:23:05 GMT

Thread moved to Fusion forum.

You have only enlarged the max. size of the virtual disk on your host/Fusion's perspective. Now, inside your Windows guest, you need to run a disk partitioning utility to make use of that new blank space. Read the article in the Fusion forum about resizing disks... you have only done half of the steps.

Help. 20 GB NTSF Disk Space have 30 GB VM - Have 54.99 GB left on MAC HD

alwysthnkn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:06:12 GMT

VMFusion Installed: Version 2.0 (116369)

ISSUE: Need to expand MS XP HD allocation - only 1.5 GB left - tried by changing HD settings in VM - Didn't work. Help

MAC 0S 10.5 (160 GB hard drive - have 54.99 left ) MacBook
Running: Windows XP PRO w/ Svc pk 3

Need more HD for XP side - 20 GB NTSF Disk Space have 30 GB VM - Have 54.99 GB left on MAC HD from 149 GB (MAC OS Extended - Journaled)

Have CA Suite on Windows side with CCleaner - so pretty sure no viruses or malicious spyware - all clean reports

--Original Settings for VMWare SCSI allocation was 20 GB

--I couldn't defrag because HD was showing as Full

--I deleted all rollback snapshots - closed VMWare Fusion
--Then Changed setting to 30 GB. It expanded the virtual disk. Now shows SCSI at 30 GB

--I went to HD to then defrag - but HD said NTSF disk was still at 19.99 GB and I have only 1.5 GB Free - so it couldn't defrag.

--I have a large project to do on Windows side - under deadline. Could use feedback as to next steps