Space missing from my virtual Hard Disk

[cyberzork]

I have a WinXP virtual machine (Vista Host). Both VMWare and WinXP correctly report the size of my disk as 10GB. However, WinXP reports my disk as being 40% full (4GB) when I only have 2.5GB on it. Except for the OS itself, I have very little installed on this virtual machine, therefore 2.5GB should be correct. Whatever happened to the missing 1.5GB? I tried running chkdsk etc, but no success.

Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks

[cyberzork]

I just realised that I posted my question in the wrong forum. I hope an administrator can move it to the proper place.

[Ken_Cline]

We can move it...but we need to know what product you are using so we can move it to the correct place

[RDPetruska · Accepted solution]

Have you viewed the hidden files? By default, the recycle bin is assigned 10% of your disk size; Internet Explorer cache is assigned way more disk space than it needs; System Restore is assigned 10% (I think)...

[cyberzork]

I am using VMWare Workstation 6.0

[RDPetruska]

Moved to Workstation forum.

Again, have you accounted for all of the hidden, system files?

[KevinG]

It would be best to post the list of files in the virtual machine directory and include the file sizes.

Select "VM" -> "Settings" and click on the virtual Hard Disk.

What is reported under "Capacity" for "Current size" and "Maximum size" ?

What is report under "Disk Information" ?

Post the .vmx file from the virtual machine

[cyberzork]

Turning System Restore off (it was set to 12%) and back on to 2% gave me back the missing space. I also changed the Recycle Bin to 1%. Thanks to RDPetruska!