On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:35:01 -0800, JonathanL
<JonathanL@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>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?
You could use something like Partition Magic to create 2 30GB
partitions, then don't use the 2nd partition, you've effectively
"shrunk" the disk to 30GB and the VM won't use more than that.
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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/