[alligator]

I have installed Windows XP Pro in Virtual PC 6.1. Because of the way I installed it, I only have about 200 MB of free space left on the "drive". How can I increase this?

[Ω]

My guess is you gave the Virtual Disk a set size limit.

If you go into the Virtual Disk Assistant you should be able to change it so it is dynamically expanding to a certain limit. You need to have shut down the virtual disk before you can do this.

HTH's

[alligator]

I tried to adjust the settings so I'd have a dynamically expanding drive. It still has 1.7GB used, 200 MB free. I need to install a 400 MB program and it won't let me due to the lack of drive space. My PowerBook has 30 GB free. If I could just figure out how to allocate an additional 5 GB or so, things would be fine.

Any ideas?

[Ω]

Sorry I misinterpreted your question. I read it as VPC has eaten up all your space and you wanted to reclaim it, not my virtual disk is too small.

I am not too sure how you can change its size after it is created. When you set up a new disk it gives you an option to set the maximum size of the HD. I guess when you did this it was too low.

Can you create another drive for it? I have never had more than 1 drive attached to an OS so I have no idea how user friendly this would be.

[va3uxb]

I don't know how to increase the size of the existing drive either, but as _?_ suggests, you can create a second virtual hard disk. You can create it and 'format' it however you like, then go into the stats for your virtual XP and add the new drive. You can have up to 3 virtual hard drives at once I think. It will simply appear as your D: drive within XP.

Then you should be able to install the program on the new virtual drive.