Parallels 17 windows 11 arm. m1

[FreedomPenguin]

I am copying this over from their support, since they probably wont answer. would love it if someone knew how to expand the size of storage that parallels sees.

New iMac owner m1. Just installed W11 arm. Need this fixed before I buy parallels 17

its a brand new iMac, I unboxed it, loaded up my backup from my MacBook Air (256gb) onto my m1 iMac 2tb 16gb ssd. Everything worked great, it shows...

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its a brand new iMac, I unboxed it, loaded up my backup from my MacBook Air (256gb) onto my m1 iMac 2tb 16gb ssd. Everything worked great, it shows 1.9tb free on my iMac space. I installed parallels 17, then installed windows 11 arm. Runs GREAT so far. I installed steam, (downloaded this for games) but when I went to install steam, it says Drive C 209gb (of 256gb) free. So I googled, found parallels advice, closed parallels 17, clicked on the parallels setting, slid the slider to 512gb and then went and went to install steam, it still shows 209.

When I go to disk format options on windows side, I see 2 HDD's C drive 256gb and then recovery 256gb. How do I merge those together? I made it 256gb again, and went back to that disk format place, and it shows like 500mb recovery now on 2nd volume. I just want 500gb dedicated to windows 11 arm, / parallels. and cant figure out how to get the windows side to see it has 512 vs the default 256gb that I assume it normally gets.

256gb goes quickly on games.

 

[Mike Boreham]

Configure > Hardware > Hard Disk > Advanced > Properties:

By default disk is self expanding, so it takes what it needs up to the limit in the screenshot. Mine is 256GB in screenshot, but VM is only 32GB.

 

[FreedomPenguin]

I did that, made it 512 gb, yet afterwards, all the installer would see was 256gb still when installing stuff on windows 11arm side.

Difference is, when I look at partitions in windows side, when that prompt is 256gb, theres a 256gb regular side and 500mb recovery side

when I enhance it to 512gb, the 500mb recovery becomes 256gb recovery. so I need to remove the partition, but not really figuring how to merge recovery/c drive together for windows.

 

[Mike Boreham]

I don't know anything about Steam and loading games. But have you been prevented from installing anything due lack of space? Maybe Parallels is waiting to expand as you add more stuff?

I suspect the issue is not specific to Silicon so you might tap into more expertise in the Windows on Mac forum

 

[Mike Boreham]

I did that, made it 512 gb, yet afterwards, all the installer would see was 256gb still when installing stuff on windows 11arm side.

Difference is, when I look at partitions in windows side, when that prompt is 256gb, theres a 256gb regular side and 500mb recovery side

when I enhance it to 512gb, the 500mb recovery becomes 256gb recovery. so I need to remove the partition, but not really figuring how to merge recovery/c drive together for windows.

I have never given a moment's thought to Windows partitions in Parallels. If you have a lot of such Windows knowledge from Windows machines you might find it does not apply to Parallels. Just a note of caution.

 

[Mike Boreham]

I have never given a moment's thought to Windows partitions in Parallels. If you have a lot of such Windows knowledge from Windows machines you might find it does not apply to Parallels. Just a note of caution.

I just had a look in Disk Management and see what you describe, though I didn't try increasing to 512GB. My inclination would be to load it up and see what Parallels does when gets over 256GB....unless you get any better advice in the Windows forum, or Parallels.

 

[deconstruct60]

I did that, made it 512 gb, yet afterwards, all the installer would see was 256gb still when installing stuff on windows 11arm side.

This seem likely to be a windows partitioning issue. The already formatted part of the disk is 256GB so the isntaller is only looking at the part that is already assigned for that. If erase the disk and point the installer at a "blank" disk (or just one NTFS partition that covers the whole disk) then the installer will take and use all of that.

Difference is, when I look at partitions in windows side, when that prompt is 256gb, theres a 256gb regular side and 500mb recovery side

If the recover partition was at the end of the 256GB vitual disk, then the cheapest, easiest thing to to is just tack the addition space onto the last partition of the 'old' virtual disk. Parallels wouldn't have to move any data at all and just modify the partition map and the recovery partition filesystem metadata .

to add it to the "C:" partition it would have to move all the recovery data to a new area and then adjust multiple file system metadata. If that longer process fails at any point then have a messed up drive. It is just safer to do two small mods.

when I enhance it to 512gb, the 500mb recovery becomes 256gb recovery. so I need to remove the partition, but not really figuring how to merge recovery/c drive together for windows.

There are Windows tools for doing partition management that really shouldn't care moving bits around on a virtual disk . . Not really primary focus of Parallels.