Andy,

How big of a drive does the Virtual PC report the drive is?
How big of a drive does the Virtual Disk Wizard report the drive being?
Most of the setups I've done, I've actually limited the drive to 4gig.

Tracy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Davies
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:07 AM
> Subject: [NF] Virtual PC disk problems
>
> Hi,
> I have just installed open office on my virtual PC (XP pro) -
> this has taken the 'dynamically expanding' virtual disk to
> about 97% full and I am getting all the usual problems
> associated with a full 'real' disk. According to Virtual PC
> Help virtual disk files on a FAT32 drive are limited to 4Gb
> and secondary files will be automatically created when the
> limit is reached - it seems it would be better if the
> expansion occurred
> *before* the limit is reached.
> Has anyone encountered this problem, and is there a
> work-around - e.g by installing a rubbish file to force it
> over the limit?
>
> Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP
>   - AndyD        8-)#




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