How do I shrink Disk Image size?

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by rothwells, Aug 12, 2007.

  1. rothwells

    rothwells Junior Member

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    Hi!

    How do I make my disk image size smaller? I can see under 4560 how to make it BIGGER, but when I got my mac I had 200GB on my PC hard drive. Of course I migrated that to parallels. After transferring everyting to the mac I've only used about 50GB on the "PC".

    Now I'm just wasting space.

    Thanks!
     
  2. Hugh Watkins

    Hugh Watkins Forum Maven

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    keep all your data in shared folders and on a firewire drive

    run disk clean up on the VM
    or http://onecare.live.com/
    great freebie from MS

    Hugh W




    Hugh W
     
  3. rothwells

    rothwells Junior Member

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    huh?

    How does paying Micro$oft for a subscription result in a smaller disk image for Parallels?

    If I put it on a portable drive, it's still taking 112GB off that drive. I want to make it smaller.

    thanks
     
  4. jackybe67

    jackybe67 Pro

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    Maybe this is a sollution :

    1) make backup off all your files

    2) you can recreate disk (see image)

    3) put everything back

    Good luck
     

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  5. rothwells

    rothwells Junior Member

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    jackybe67

    How do you put everything back? I'm not really concerned about regular files, but about boot files, windows files. The stuff it's not gonna let you change while you're running Windows?
     
  6. jackybe67

    jackybe67 Pro

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    Copy the map where your .hdd is located (finder/documents/parallels) or type .hdd in spotlight and look in finder.

    Normally the map is called microsoft windows xp.


    Make changes and put everything back in map. Maybe you have to install parallels again because it doesn't know where .hdd is located.
     
  7. mstielau

    mstielau Bit poster

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    The Parallels virtual hard drive was taking up 32 GB of space on my Mac, but Windows system tools said that only 12 GB was actually being used. Defragmenting didn't help.

    In Parallels "Help", I read about the "Parallels Compressor" utility, which shrunk the size of the virtual hard drive on my disk from 32 GB to 12 GB. (Parallels Compressor is available under the "Actions" menu.) Would recommend looking up info in the Help area before running it.

    It took a couple of hours to complete it's task on my quad MacPro; this was the first time I've run it. Not sure if it would go quicker if I ran it on a regular basis.
     

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