I have a Win2k3 Guest running on an XP host computer.
The host is a Dual PIV 4.0 Ghz with 1 Gb of RAM.
The Guest is running some DB software that has been allowed to grow out of control. Currently I have a 500 Gb SATA disk (O: drive) where the guest resides. It is taking up 397 Gb of that space. I've removed some of the old junk and pared down the DB to a more manageable level.
In the process that cleared up 119 Gb of space. I want to reclaim this space on the disk so I ran the Shrink command from VMWare tools.
It goes through it's "Preparing for Shrinking" phase, but then I get an error message "There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation".
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-josh