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cxed2496
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Removing bootcamp partition after creating VM with Fusion

Hello,

I have created a virtual machine off of my bootcamp drive, and noticed that the virtual machine takes up about the same amount of space on my mac partition, as the size of the partition I have allocated to running Windows through bootcamp.  Does this mean a copy has been made and I am free to remove the bootcamp partion without it affecting the virtual machine?  I never boot up directly into bootcamp, and I could use the hard drive space.  Thanks.

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ColoradoMarmot
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How did you create it?  Did you use the converter, or did you just virtualize the platform in place?

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cxed2496
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I think I figured it out.  I used the importer, which made a copy of the bootcamp OS, and explains why the vm is taking up so much space on the mac partition. 

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vmwaresearch
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Hi,

So what is the answer to the first question ? Can you remove a Windows 10 bootcamp partition from a double boot windows 10 and Catalina OS without affecting the bootcamp vm newly located on the Catalina mac partition. In short I want to recover the bootcamp partition space and keep the bootcamp vm working in the Catalina mac partition through VM Fusion. I did use  the new bootcamp option transfer . Full vm disk 136GB.

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RDPetruska
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I want to recover the bootcamp partition space and keep the bootcamp vm working

The bootcamp virtual machine is merely a pointer to the actual physical installed OS on the bootcamp partition.  You need to create a new Windows 10 VM on your host if you want to remove the boot camp one.

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