Re: Free-up disk

Please follow this.. Shrink recipe:    1. First backup your guest os disk image and other files (just in case something goes wrong) + make sure you have plenty of spare disk space on your harddrive.    2. Start Windows guest OS in VMWare Fusion and login as administrator    3. Clean up & defrag guest OS disk image from within guest OS      * Delete all unused files, empty your trash can, delete your browser cache etc.      * Defragment your guest OS (f.x. using “defrag c:” in the cmd prompt).    4. Zero out unused disk space in guest OS disk image      * Download Mark Russinovich’s disk erase tool SDelete v1.51+ and place it on the local guest drive (*1).      * From a command prompt navigate to where you saved the above delete tool and write “sdelete -c c:”, which will clear all free disk space    5. Close guest OS and VMWare      * Shutdown your Windows guest OS.      * Quit VMWare fusion    6. Shrink disk image using VMWare’s diskTool      * Navigate to the VMWare Fusion tools directory. E.g. type “cd /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS”      * Run VMWare Fusion’s diskTool command with the shrink option “-k” to compact your virtual drive (*.vmdk). E.g. type “./diskTool -k 0 full-path-to-your-virtual-desk-image.vmdk”. (*2)    7. Finished!