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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / July 2006Problem with Steve Jain's Precompactor process
People, I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent thread posted by Petula on Precompactor issues and I also did a search for the process suggested by Steve Jain on how to use Precompactor. I followed the steps in Steve's modified procedure. Everything goes as expected until I get to step 25. On my version of VPC (7.0.2) running on an eMac with OS 10.2.8, there is no "browse" button in the Virtual Disk Assistant. At the Select a PC window of the VDA I see two selection boxes, one for PC and one for Disk. There is one entry in each (I only have one VM) but no "browse" button. In step 26 I see no "Compact the Disk" selection. All I get is the Disk Image Information window asking if I want to convert to a fixed size image or reclaim zeroed disk space. If I select the latter, it starts to run but fairly quickly stops dead because there is not enough disk space. In step 27 there is a mention of using a secondary file to compact the disk. I would like to try this but how is it done? At what point do you "select a New File, browse to a new location and click "next"? What am I missing or doing wrong? John > People, > I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > John In order to zero out the disk space, the VDA needs to rewrite the entire image. So, assuming that you have a 15GB image, your computer would need an additional 15GB of free disk space in order to do it's work. Else, you will get the message that there is not enough disk space. > > People, > > I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > work. Else, you will get the message that there is not enough disk > space. Paul, Yeah, I kinda figured that but what about my questions on the steps for Steve's procedure? John > > > People, > > > I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > John Actually, it's not Steve's procedure. The steps are a collaborative effort by several people in this newsgroup and it took a lot of trial and error to get Precompactor to work in VPC. That, in itself, is a small miracle. Steve has been kind enough to provide space on his website for people to download Precompactor and the instructions to use it. However, these are provided 'as is' and you use them at your own risk. I have not followed the posted steps as I was involved in the original efforts trying to make it work, so I don't know if they are wrong or not. I would assume that if they ARE wrong, Steve will correct them when he has the time. |
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