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Shrink VirtualPC 7 disk images
Authored by: victory on Jun 08, '06 03:48:34PM
MS makes a special tool that runs inside the Windows guest os to allow the VPC Disk Assistant to reclaim free space quicker. There are reports that it works under VPC for Mac as well, although I haven't verifed this personally (I tend to create my .vphd containers using fixed-size disks)

Anyhow, read more about precompactor here or just download it here. (Look at the bottom of the 'VirtualPC for Mac' section)

With that said, most often I use the Ghost method myself. It's surprisingly quick when dealing with virtual drives.

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