I understand that is because the disk is fragmented and must be defragmented first, as explained atĭefragmenting, shrinking, and cleaning up VMware Fusion virtual machine disks (1001934)Ģ.
First I tried to reduce disk size via 'Virtual Machine - Settings - Removable Devices - Hard Disk (SCSI)', yet it shows 'Invalid disk size. I want to defragment Windows Pro 10 Anniversary v1607 (Build 14393.0) 64-bit on VMware Fusion 8.1.1 (3771013) on Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G31) El Cap itan, to later on reduce its size, since I had to increase its size from 15 GB to 30 GB in order to update from Windows Pro 10 (Build 10240) 64-bit into Windows Pro 10 Anniversary v1607 (Build 14393.0) 64-bit and extra space was needed to mount the Windows 10 '.iso' installer with PowerISO (Windows did not mount it) and run Setup.exe to install, which required copying contents into temporary directory to install.ġ. Cannot defragment Vmware Fusion virtual disk from Windows 10 on Mac mini (late 2012) with Apple Fusion Drive 1 TB.
