Tweak size of Virtual XP logical disk?

bherber

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I have a couple of drawing programs that I'm having to use in VXP because they aren't 64bit compatible. When I try to open anything that is larger than a relatively small size, it errors out because it says "Not enough space to create scratch files." Is there a way to tweak the size of the logical disk to make it larger?...Or do I have to create a whole new environment?

(Admittedly, I'm not sure I know how to do that because I'm just using the default setup and created environment that it created when I installed it.) But I'll try anything once!
 

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I kind of figured that... Is there a way to just increase the size of the current configuration, or do I have to create a new one? Where do you do that?
 

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Open Virtual Machines folder, located in your user folder (C:\Users\Your_Username\Virtual Machines). Right click Windows XP Mode, choose Settings. Choose Memory from the list on the left, change the amount of memory you want to allocate for XP Mode on the right.

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Thanks! I had found the place where you could change the memory settings, but it was always grayed-out. I finally figured out that it was in a hibernated state instead of shutdown. As soon as I shut it down, then I could manipulate the memory setting. I appreciate your patience... :-)
 

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nVidia
Sound Card
Add-on: Creative X-Fi notebook
Monitor(s) Displays
built-in 17"
Hard Drives
Two 500Gb
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