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Shrink VirtualPC 7 disk images
Authored by: gteague on Jun 06, '06 03:02:05PM

vpc disk de-frag failed suggesting i run chkdsk /f which in turn tells me the disk is locked. i took up the offer to run chkdsk on restart, but that doesn't kick in either.

i've been trying off and on for nearly two years to shrink down the size of this one image. i've followed the instructions from the old connectix forum and the ms beta list exactly, but the process always fails in one step or another.

i originally gave it a 15gb container and it is 8.55gb in the mac finder. but the pc says there is approx 11gb free space which means the mac image file should be around 4gb.

/guy

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Shrink VirtualPC 7 disk images
Authored by: gteague on Jun 11, '06 03:37:03PM

well, i persevered over the course of a week and finally got this to work. what a great tip! like i say, i've been trying off and on using various methods to shrink some of my image files. this method took me from 8.55gb down to 4.9gb.

many thanks to the author!

/guy

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