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3 Replies Last post: Nov 4, 2009 5:33 PM by Bargonaut  

XP guest not recognizing new hard drive size and memory allocation posted: Nov 4, 2009 7:10 AM

Click to view DavidAllen's profile Novice 4 posts since
Nov 4, 2009

I'm running Fusion 3 on a new IMac 21.5" running 10.6.1 with 8G RAM with XP SP3 guest. Just migrated from late 2006 MacBook running Fusion 2.06 using Mac migration assistant, then upgraded to Fusion 3.

Main issue is that when I updated hard drive size from 40G to 100 G and changed memory allocation from 2G to 6G, Windows OS is not recognizing change. Windows reports 3G memory and 40G hard drive.

Other issues:

OS (or VMware) is also unstable and hangs, barely responsive without indicating heavy CPU use and sometimes will not restart, requiring Force Quit. Usually will run for 30-45 minutes before hang. Only application I run is Revit 2010 (which is also unstable, just installed service release 2).

Tried to install new Guest but get "No bootable device" message - saw thread for this and will create ISO image.

Click to view murfmonkey's profile Novice 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2009
David: I can't help you with the RAM memory, but I had the same problem when I expanded my Virtual HD from 20GB to 30GB. Windows XP still thought it was 20GB and called the rest "unallocated space."

There is a beauty of a freeware program called Easeus Partition Master - http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol%3bpop&cdlPid=10982635. Run this on the Windows side (at least it worked for XP) and it should show 2 drives. Highlight the one you want to expand, click on (expand/resize), drag divider out to full size of HD and then "apply" and it accomplished the partition in about 5 seconds for me. Problem solved.

John
Click to view Bargonaut's profile Novice 21 posts since
Sep 10, 2007
XP can only use 3GB of RAM. You need a 64-bit OS to access more than that.
Even VMware can't improve that deficiency, so there's no point in allocating more.

-BS

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