JonathanL wrote:
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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?
Hi Jonathan,
As far as I know, the only way to do it is to create the
'smaller' VHD, then use an application like Ghost to do a
image copy from the original VHD to the new VHD.
Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T
CSD Computer Services
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