Combining Bootcamp and Parallels

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by solsurfer, Apr 14, 2007.

  1. solsurfer

    solsurfer Junior Member

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    I installed Apple's boot camp when it first came out (before Parallels launched), and set aside ~100gb of disk space for my Windows HD. Then when Parallels came out I installed that, and promptly stopped using Boot Camp. (I'm now on Build 3188.) I'm pretty sure when I installed Parallels I was prompted to leverage the existing copy of Windows on the boot camp partition, and I did. That was ages ago, so my memory is hazy. Well, now my Parallels installation is running into space issues. The C drive reports only 8 gb of space and is nearly full. I don't use boot camp anymore so I want Parallels to take full advantage of the 100gb of space set aside. Any ideas on how to go about doing this?

    I thought it might be as simple as using the Apple Boot Camp tool to reclaim that 100gb of space and then expanding the size of the Parallels partition, but then I realized doing so would erase the Windows files that Parallels is using. And for all I know, Parallels is fulling using that boot camp parition, but just isn't recognizing the full size.

    Any help would be much appreciated!
     

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