Virtual PC file size problem?

[sholleran]

There are also plenty of commercially available, shareware, or freeware programs to 'zero out' the deleted data. I've read that Norton Utilities can, as well as programs like Eraser (first one I tried, it is pretty slow but how often do you do this? Kind of like defragging, it's not a daily thing.) which adds a handy right-click to the Explorer context menu. (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/eraser.html) You will need to add an overwrite type for writing all zeroes, that's what Virtual PC wants rather than a more security-minded random pattern.