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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2005Need to make harddrive bigger
The hard drive on my Virtual PC was set initially at 2GB. Its meant to increase as needed. However a lot of software (>650MB) will not install as there is not enough free space at time of install. How can I increase the size of the Hard drive manually? Thanks, David What version of Virtual PC? On 25/5/05 8:40 pm, in article 1117050018.173941.235720@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Paul Power" <paulkpower@gmail.com> wrote: > What version of Virtual PC? I'm using Virtual PC 6.1 Use the Virtual Disk Assistant under the Window pulldown to convert your static drive to a dynamic drive. The system will then automatically expand the drive size as you need more space. > The hard drive on my Virtual PC was set initially at 2GB. Its meant to > increase as needed. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks, > David Open Virtual PC Help. Type in 'convert' (without the quotes) The first paragraph states that you cannot switch from fixed size disk images to dynamic. You can only go from dynamic to static. >Use the Virtual Disk Assistant under the Window pulldown to convert your >static drive to a dynamic drive. The system will then automatically >expand the drive size as you need more space. No, once you set the maximum size limit, it doesn't matter if you have a dynamic or static disk image. A dynamically expanding drive image will only expand to the initial limit that was set when it was created.  SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP Website: http://www.essjae.com "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. I am not am employee of Microsoft." On 26/5/05 7:46 pm, in article 1a6c91p7l4ivfcljj5cvckj5sh9r3c5bnr@4ax.com, >> Use the Virtual Disk Assistant under the Window pulldown to convert your >> static drive to a dynamic drive. The system will then automatically [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > will only expand to the initial limit that was set when it was > created. My drive is Dynamic already! There is plenty of GBs on the real harddisk, but the virtual PC installers don't see that. The program I wish to install says I have 600MB available, however the install program needs 1.2GB. Therefore the install forbids the installation. This is a problem! VPC must be installed to your boot partition. Once it is installed to your boot partition, you can then move the drive image Except that it can not be expanded beyond it's maximum size. A 2gb max drive image will become a 2gb max size dynamic image. |
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