[X4U] parallels hard drive

[Nick Scalise]

---- Mitchell Senft <ms53 at optonline.net> wrote: 
> Got Parallels pre-loaded on the MacBook. Now want -- need! -- to  
> reduce the partition to regain HD space. Parallels/Windows is used  
> essentially only for running a remote access app (PCAnywhere) to  
> access the PC at work. No other reason/need to run Windows.
> 
> So the question simply (?) is this: How do I reduce the partition  
> alloted to Parallels and the Win guest OS? And yes, I tried the  
> support pages at Parallels; only showed how to expand it. Also emailed  
> TS; no real answer.

Do you mean reduce the partition of the physical drive or reduce the partition of the disk image?

Parallels can boot from a disk image file or a disk partition.

If it is from a disk image, you may not be able to reduce. If you are booting from a physical disk partition, you should be able to reduce the partition size from within DiskUtility. (10.5 only)

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Nick Scalise
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