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How do I eliminate a virtual disk in a virtual machine?
Instead of using XP mode which is not available in Windows 7 Home Premium, I installed a virtual machine and installed Windows XP prof from an installation DVD.
My HD has three partions, two of about 80 GB and one of 340 GB. The CPU is Intel core i5 with 3 GB Ram.
It works fine, I have XP in a window inside of my Windows 7 desktop and can change easily among the two.
But unfortunately I set up one fixed size virtual disk of 70GB for the VM on the second partition although I don't need so much space.
Now I want to redistribute the disk space, reducing the second partition and increasing the 3rd.
When I tried to eliminate the 70GB virtual disk, I found out that there is no way to eliminate a virtual disk once it has been set up. So I tried to change it into a dynamic virtual disk and thus reduce its size, but I get the error that my host system does not have sufficient resources to change the VD type.
The only way to eliminate a VD appears to be the elimination of the entire virtual machine, but I would like to avoid this as installing XP with the applications took nearly a day of work.
So what can I do to eliminate the VD or at least change it to dynamic or otherwise reduce its size?