"JonathanL" <JonathanL@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm not talking about shrinking the size of the VHD file, I know how to do
> that. What I want to know is if there is a way to reduce the size of the
> hard
> drive created inside a VPC. I'm running XP Pro in a VPC and I have a lot
> of
> extra hard drive space. I want to reduce the size of the HD from a 60 GB
> hard
> drive to a 30GB HD. I'm sure once that's done I could shrink the VHD but
> right now the VHD is shrunk as much as it will shrink using the
> established
> methods.
> This would be like shrinking the size of a HD on a physical machine. Is
> there any way to do it without just starting over and creating a new VHD
> with
> a smaller HD size and reinstalling XP and apps into it all over again?
I can't work out what you are tying to say. There is no disk drive
associated with a vm except the .vhd file. As far as the vm is concerned,
this is its system disk.
How would you shrink the size of the physical HD on a physical machine
(as you suggest)? You can change the partition size, but the capacity of a
physical disk is fixed.