I looks like that's what I'm going to need to do. I probably don't understand
VM technology as well as I need to. When I created the new VM and installed
XP, I told it to partition and create a HD of 60GB. Now I see this was way
too big and not needed.
If I created another VM, installed XP, and during the install told it to
partition or create a HD of 30GB, would the resulting VHD file be any smaller
than the one I have with the 60GB HD? Or does that not make any difference,
and the only thing that actually affects the size of the VHD file is all of
the apps and data that you install in the guest OS of the VHD?
Jonathan
"C.Joseph Drayton" wrote:
Quote:
> JonathanL 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?
>
> 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
>
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