Disk size increrasing

I recognize that this question has been asked elsewhere but I confess I am totally confused! I ran Image Tool and increased XP's disk size from 8 to 14 GB. The configuration editor tells me that the virtual disc size is indeed 14000MB, but the winxp.hdd file size remains at 7.58 GB. I can only find the one hdd file. The advanced tab tells me that the Disk Format is "Expanding" but when running XP the "Low on disk space" warning keeps popping up and the system slows to a crawl when doing heavy work. When I do a right-click-Properties on the C drive in XP, I see the old, 8 GB disk space.

What am I doing wrong here, how can I get the virtual disk increase to be recognized by XP?

Thanks - Lawrence

 

hi,
unfortunately Parallels disk image let you increasing just common disk size not Windows partition size (disk C: in your case). If you go under Windows to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disks management then you can see there your presents partition size of 8 Gb and the rest unallocated disk space that you want to get by increasing. You can create there additional Windows partition (volume) and move there some data from disk C:. Also virtual memory paging file can be reconfigured to be placing at new partition it let to get additional disk space at your system volume C:.

 

I made my VM disk 30 gb
(20 gb used 10 gb free)
and keep it on and run it from a fire wire 800 external disk

if you bought a new laptop how big a disk would it have?

I have run out of space on my Macintosh HD which is why I work like this

Hugh W