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

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:34:42 +0000

CJ,
I’m sorry I was not much help. Typically, errors can be fixed by re-doing or re-moving. I’m glad you found a fix though.
“Bye bye Windows XP” is a statement I would like to hear more often

Thanks,
Mason

By: CJRH

CJRH — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:09:12 +0000

I actually just deleted all of my .vmdk files and called it good. It was become more of a hassle than it was worth. Bye bye Windows XP.

Thanks for the help, Mason.

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:17:14 +0000

Assuming you have not partitioned anything successfully, your best bet is try again. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks,
Mason

By: CJRH

CJRH — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:19:44 +0000

I followed the steps up to hitting “apply” in GParted. It gave me an error when I tried to shrink the disk. Reading online, I found that the error might be solved by a simple defrag of the drive. I went to perform my defrag and somehow it’s eating up my available Mac hard drive space. I keep having to delete files just to create room for the defragmentation to finish. What it’s acting like is that somehow it’s ignoring the original NTFS partition and creating a new one. What do I do? HELP!

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:04:35 +0000

You’re very welcome. I appreciate the comment.

By: Tore G

Tore G — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:47:45 +0000

Thanks a lot! Really useful. I thought that VMWare Fusion could handle this on it’s own. This guide helped out.

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:54:57 +0000

Hey Richard,
I actually had no problem shrinking the XP partition on my computer. In fact, you don’t do the actual shrinking until the GParted screen (during BIOS reboot).
Just follow the screenshots I have during the GParted steps and drag the partition slider the other way to shrink it.

Thanks,
Mason

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:52:52 +0000

You’re very welcome Paul. Glad you got everything working now.

Thanks,
Mason

By: Richard Ladson

Richard Ladson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing your expertise.

I wish to shrink (not expand) the size of the partition allocated to Win/XP, however, the VDiskManager GUI insists that the new partition size be larger than the existing size.

Therefore, it appears that one cannot shrink the partition size, am I wrong?

Thanks.

By: Paul Pogonoski

Paul Pogonoski — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:51:13 +0000

This has been plaguing me for months, and I’ve finally found the solution!

Great instructions, but the clincher was the hitherto unknown VMWare utilities (less GParted which is an old Linux friend) that has made some thing that I couldn’t get working, work.

Great work!