I used Parallels Transporter Agent to move a Windows 7 system to Parallels Desktop on my Mac from an HP PC. The HP's hard drive has 3 partitions: the main C: drive, a D: recovery partition, and an E: HP tools partition. Parallels Transporter faithfully reconstructed these partitions in the PVM bundle on my Mac. I have no need for the D: and E: partitions, and I would like to delete them and get the disk space back (the D: partition is 12GB!). What is the best way to do this? Can I use Windows 7's disk manager? Will Parallels give me space back after disk manager deletes the D: and E: partitions? I thought it would be best to check in advance since I don't want to mess up my VM Thanks for the help! Dave
Hello! Yes, you can use the Disk Manager to get rid of those partitions. In order to increase size of your C: drive you can resize the Virtual Hard Drive from the Virtual Machine Configuration pane. Please follow the steps below in order to resize the Virtual Hard Drive: http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v6/docs/en/Parallels_Desktop_Users_Guide/23215.htm ('Editing the Disk' section).
I used the W7 disk manager to delete the D: and E: partitions. This left them as unallocated space on the virtual HDD. So I also used W7 disk manager to increase the size of the C: partition to fill the unallocated space. Finally I used the Parallels "compress" command, and voila!, my .pvm file shrunk in size by over 12GB! All seems to be working fine now. Thanks for the help! Dave
