Make assigned drive space smaller after importing windows

I used Parallels Transporter to bring my windows PC into a virtual machine on my new MacBook. The MacBook has a 320GB hard drive, the windows PC had a 500GB hard drive, of which only about 100GB was in use.

When parallels created the VM, it created an expanding drive of 500GB. How is this possible considering it's larger than the available drive space on the Mac itself???

Is there a way to make this setting smaller? I can make it bigger, but it won't let me go smaller than the 456GB it assigned at creation.

Will snapshotting the image and restoring it to a "new" VM work? Alternately, could I use something like symantec Ghost to image the VM, then restore that image into a new VM with a smaller drive?

Thanks in advance!

 

Hi

We use two disk formats. One is pre-allocated images, another is expanding. Expanding images don't need to pre-allocate space to store information.

You need to resize hard disk with "Resize file system" option enabled. For more information please look at Hard Disk Settings section in Parallels Desktop User's Guide.
If "Resize file system" option is grayed or some errors are happen please create a problem report (Help -> Report a problem) and post it's number here.[/QUOTE]

 

Thanks for the help... I have the resize option selected. The disk is an expanding disk. The issue is that the smallest number available on the sliding scale for setting the drive size is 466GB... Parallels won't allow me to go smaller than that.

 

Smallest size is dependent from partitions structure within the disk. In current implementation we can resize only last partition.
Please make screenshot of Disk Management (with partitions on disk) and create a problem report (Help -> Report a problem). I will try to help you using Disk Management screenshot and report ID.

 

Thanks again. I fixed the problem. When you said the size was dependent on the partitions on the disk, I went and used acronis disk director to shrink the partition on the windows VM, and was then able to use the VM Config to reduce the size of the disk.

Thanks again for the help!
Reuben