Parallels 5 / Windows 7 upgrade help

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by mrm, Nov 9, 2009.

  1. mrm

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    I have iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.1. Upgraded to Parallels 5 w/o incident w/ Windows Vista installed. I now want to install Windows 7. When I start the install process I get message that: "not enough free space on partition C total of 12689 mb of free disk space required". Is there a step by step guide available on how I can increase the available free space on "partiton C " so I can upgrade my Vista to Windows 7 ? Thanks for any help.
     
  2. Praveen Kashyap

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    I am having exactly the same issue, and I have only around 10.8 GB of available space (AFTER uninstalling all extra Windows programs like Safari, iTunes, etc). I also tried removing some Vista program files (like Movie Maker) to create more space but could not remove them.
    Help!
     
  3. mrm

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    Found this in the forums. Looks like it should work but the post is over a year old:

    "How to expand drive C in Mac OS X"

    http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=30381&highlight=expand+drive+mac+os[/url]
     
  4. Phil Raby-Smith

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    Increase virtual hard disk size

    Think I can help. Had to do this to install W7 under PD4. In PD5 go to Configuration>Hardware>Resize..., then expand your virtual HDD.
     

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