Monthly Archives: April 2008

Work

Resizing VMWare fusion image file

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Recently I came to the point when free space on my virtual drive under VMWare was almost nonexistent. Usually it doesn’t bother me at all but I wanted to watch a movie from Netflix and all I got was information that Netflix’s player requires at least 1GB of hard drive to play anything at all.

Unfortunately disk size option in virtual machine settings was in my case grayed out so I couldn’t do it directly. After quick search in Google I have found that there is a command line tool already included that allows you to do so. All you have to do is run this little command:

cd /Applications /VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS/
./diskTool -X 15Gb /VmWare/Windows\ XP.vmwarevm/Windows\ XP.vmdk

Be sure to pt the path to the actual vmdk file. After a minute or so I saw

Grow : 100% (10485760/10485760) done.

And all that left to do was to start the virtual machine and resize partition using partition resizing software of your choice.

Work

Logitech webcam and “error 1327. Invalid drive: F:\”

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Yesterday I was trying to install new Logitech webcam on Iza’s computer. During installation I was repeatedly getting this error:

“error 1327. Invalid drive: F:\”

during one of the installation software steps. Funny thing is that this particular computer does not have drive F: at all.

After some unsuccessful Google research I started to think (yes, that’s a skill I’m using sometime). One thing that came to my mind was DAEMON tools – the software used to create virtual CD/DVD drives to mount disk images without burning them. I opened it’s setting page and disabled it completely. Another try – and voila! Logitech webcam software no longer checked mystery drive F: and installed itself properly.