![]() in my case since my new physical disk was a dynamic partition, it only created vmdk files for the actually consumed drive space by the guest OS, so it was only 26Gig or so (C-drive and E-drive). click on it and let it calculate the size, and it should tell you the footprint is much smaller. Shutdown the guest OS now.ĩ) In VMWare tools on mac side, change disk settings and on the physical disk that holds your D-drive (it was disk1 for me, since disk0 was my C-drive), click on the (-) minus sign to delete the physical disk1 (which is safe since you moved everything that was on it from disk1 to disk2, your new E-drive.)ġ0) Restart the windows OS, go into Computer Manager > Disk Management, and confirm your old disk1 is gone.ġ1) Check in your finder Virtual machine > Windows XP Pro (in my case). When it restarts, it will move your temp folder and swap disk to new drive on your new physical disk (virtual). Hit no, since you need to restart anyway for step 6 to take effect. It will tell you it wants to log you out to take affect. Browsing history Settings > and click the button for "Move Folder" to your new E drive. do step 7 firstħ) before you reboot, if you have your window temporary internet files on your D-drive, then you'll need to go to IE Tools > Internet Options and change the location of your temporary files to the new E-drive. It will tell you you need to restart to pick up the settings - hold on. It will prompt you to run the wizard to initialize the new disk - do so, and check the new volume, and hit next until it's done initializing it.ģ) right click on the new volume and tell it to create a new partitiion, give it a drive letter (like E), and format the new partition.Ĥ) copy all your files from the D-drive to the E-drive.ĥ) If you have your pagefile.sys (swap file) on your D-drive like I did you'll need to go to My Computer > right click Properties > Advanced tab > Performance Settings button > Advanced tab > Virtual memory change button > click on your new E drive, tell it to create a paging file there with the same size settings as the existing one on your C or D drive.Ħ) click on the drive with the existing page file and click the No Page File radio button and click the Set button., then OK until you're out of that whole menu tree. don't yell at me if you try this with your C-drive and it breaks something But it should work.Ġ) Back everything up that you can't afford to lose if this goes wrong!ġ) in Mac VMWare tools with the windows shut down, disk settings, hit the + sign to create a new disk - I made one that was 20 Gig (my files were 10Gig but left a little room for no real reasonĢ) restart the windows OS, and open computer manager, disk manager. in my case it was just my 2nd physical disk with drive D that i wanted to shrink. Note, if your C-drive and D-drive are on the same physical disk, you'll need to do this once for the D-drive and once for the C-drive, but I haven't actually done the C-drive version, which seems more dangerous. ![]() All my work was to reduce the vmdk footprint of the D-drive which was a 180Gig partition. I didn't really touch the C-drive since it was nearly full anyway. ![]() I had searched around and not found a good solution since the built-in VMWare tools shrink functions don't work with NTFS or simply given the config, but I figured out a good workaround. in the end the real drive space consumed in the windows guest world was 26.8Gig but because it was on such large volumes, the host still reported the VM as >210Gig consumed of my 500Gig Mac HD. this really is an amazing piece of software). 2 physical disks showed up on the VMWare tools on the mac side, and it wouldn't let me do any kind of resizing or shrinking and the VM file on the mac side, even though in the end I had moved everything over to the Mac Finder world (and for the few things I wanted to open from the Windows side I opened using the volume I shared on the mac side to the windows side. I had done a VM Ware installation (Mac OSX 10.6.4 at the time guest OS WinXP SP3) using the option to copy from the existing windows installation, which had some 350Gig of HD space, a SCSI disk and an SATA disk.
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