I know you could say this isn't a Virtual PC problem (but please don't).
I'm trying to archive some of my rarely used VHD files to a USB drive
and I've noticed that VHD files compress quite well (using XP's "send to
compressed folder"). I've seen the zip files come out between 33% and
50%, which if you're arching 100GB's worth of VHDs is very nice saving.
Unfortunately, there's a well known and MS-admitted problem with files
over 2GB that they can become corrupted, so it won't even try and create
them.
Does anyone know of a way to compress my larger VHDs that range from 2GB
up to 16GB? I know there's some kind of way (in VPC somewhere) of
compressing them. If I recall correctly, you first do a defrag inside
the VM, then there's some external tool which makes the file smaller
somehow. I could use a refresher on that process, but even after all
that, I'd still like to zip the final file to get the optimal
compression. Even an external 500GB drive seems to fill up easily these
days
