Hi, I know this question must have been posted before, but I can't seem to find it. I am running parallels for a single statistical program I have to use for my dissertation. I am able to use the program for about an hour or so, and it starts telling me I am out of hard drive space. I've gotten in the habit of running the parallels compressor every single time I use parallels - and it takes about half an hour. My dissertation is due in 1 week (STRESSED!), and now I can't even get through 1 iteration of my statistical program before the program tells me I'm "out of resources" and terminates the program. Windows gives me the pop-up that tells me I have a critically small amount of storage left. What am I doing wrong? Here's my settings: My machine: MacBook, Core 2 Duo, 2Ghx 2GB RAM, 149GB hard drive Parallels: Running Windows XP Pro 512MB RAM allotted 20GB hard drive allotted I have nothing installed on parallels except this one statistical program and firefox. The stats program uses a lot of processor - but I have no problems with the RAM. In fact, I am able to run parallels along with *another* statistical program that works on OS X at the same time and my machine handles it fine. It just seems that parallels is eating up the hard drive space far out of proportion to what is actually loaded onto it. I don't really understand how the hard drive allocation works (expecially since when I upped it from 10GB to 20GB it didn't seem to affect the amount of free harddrive space OS X says I have...) The statistical program I put on parallels is about 1.8 GB, and I have another 600MB of files saved on windows. I had the same amount of stuff saved to it when I had only 10GB allotted, and it worked fine for a while - then started giving me this problem. I upped to 20GB (without having saved any additional stuff to it), and it worked fine for a while again - and here I am again. Running the stats program only overwrites files that are already there at this point, with minimal (if any) extra use of harddrive space. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Again - sorry for not taking the time to search out the answer (that I'm sure is on here somewhere). I'm running down to the wire and just need to figure out how to make it work quickly! thanks! ~K
It sounds as if you increased the size of your virtual disk without increasing the partition size. When you increase the disk size it's equivalent to opening up the drive, adding a platter, and closing it back up. this has no effect on the formatted partition. It just creates more unformatted space on the simulated physical drive. If you can use temporary space on a second drive for your work space, you can create a second partition from the unused space on the drive and assign it another drive letter. Or you can read the "how I increased the size of my disk" sticky thread for some ways of expanding your partition, or you can create a second virtual disk, attach it and format it, whichever is easiest for you.
I'll give one of those options a shot (probably the second drive). Thanks so much for the quick reply.
