Comments on: How To Repartition Physical Disk Space In VMware Fusion

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:51:24 +0000

That’s weird… F9 should work, did you try holding down the command key with F9?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:25:16 +0000

Yeah, BIOS isn’t allowing me to. Says something about USB not reading the F9. I tried uninstalling VMware and then repartitioned it that way and reset parameters… I am at a standstill unless I can figure out a full uninstall and full reinstall.

Thank you anyway.

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:03:27 +0000

Matt, here’s the link to the newest GParted.iso:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.11.0-7/gparted-live-0.11.0-7.zip/download

Try it out and tell me how it goes.

I’m only familiar with running 64bit Vista, but not XP…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:53:29 +0000

Thanks for all your help. It is nice to have some knowledge in my corner. As far as the iso, I clicked the download above and it comes up with the live version 04.1.iso. I did a search for it after and downloaded on my computer to no avail. . and still stuck on supervisor mode and user mode under the step Bios part. . .also anyway to run the xp version from 32bit to 64? Thanks again.

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:25:56 +0000

Matt, you need to find GParted.iso for the process to work properly. As far as escaping user mode, I am not sure how… Try following the steps one more time. Let me know if you encounter any other issues.

Best,
Mason

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:47:31 +0000

OK, followed all steps to detail only 2 things I have as an issue. I never found GParted.iso, but I did find a Gparted-live4.1.iso, so I used that. Secondly, I got all of the f2 part… got to the boot tab and said I was in user mode and couldn’t adjust the CD-ROM… How would I get out of user mode?

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:50:33 +0000

John, I’m not sure why this would happen. From the BIOS screen does it show any changes to the hard-drive allocation?

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:49:50 +0000

Hi Mason, I am using VMware Fusion 3.1.3. I tried expanding a virtual disk (non-OS 2nd hard disk) by moving the slider bar from 300GB to 500GB. It seems instantaneous but when I boot up my Windows 7 VM, the whole 500GB is unallocated and Windows Disk Manager prompts for disk initialization which I’m afraid might wipe out my data. I had tried expanding from 250GB to 300GB before without trouble but do not remember it to be this quick. How can I monitor to see whether the disk expansion is in progress or had died and corrupted my virtual drive?

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:23:40 +0000

Jerry, I’ve honestly never heard of anyone getting this error during the installation process. Are you trying to using a disk image instead of a physical disc?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:33:29 +0000

Attempted twice each with the resulting error:
oxcoooo225

Requesting the Windows disc.

How can I resolve this without the disc that I misplaced?