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Filed under on April 16, 2008 by Michael Helmuth

Resizing Your Windows XP Boot Partition in Parallels

After many hours installing the various things required for .NET development on my Parallels instance of Windows XP, the last service pack was finally installing.  I really thought 14 gigs would be enough for my XP Parallels install.  Apparently, I was wrong.  Disk full.

Once I began looking at my options, I realized it was not as simple as using the Parallels Image Tool to expand the disk and boot partition.  The Parallels Image Tool allows you to resize the virtual disk but not your boot partition, or any partition for that matter.  Further, when you resize the image and then look in the XP disk manager, you find that you can partition and format your newly created space, but you can't actually resize the boot partition into it. Apparently Vista allows this from the Win disk manager but XP does not.

I did a little research and came up with a really cool little application called GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php).  This app offers a bootable disk image that allows you to manipulate the partitions of a Windows disk--which includes the boot partition. It turns out to be a brilliant solution to this problem.

In practice, there really are quite a number of steps involved, but nothing particularly difficult.  In my hunting I also turned up a helpful tutorial with screenshots to guide you every step of the way: (http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/01/9404/).  I followed that carefully and everything is working great.

Problem solved.

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