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Boot Camp Repartition

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ktalebian

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Hi, I have just installed Windows on my Mac using Boot Camp, now I want to resize the two drives I have. I saw on many boards that the only way to do it is either to format, and redo everything, or use the iPartition program.
However, as this site says
http://guides.macrumors.com/Booting_Windows_on_the_Mac
you do not need to format anything, and Boot Camp actually allows you to do this, without losing any data! Any idea how to do it theen?
 
That's an old guide, much of it was discussing either hacks or beta software. What specifically were you referring to that led you to believe you could do that?

As it stands, Boot Camp partitions cannot be resized on-the-fly through Leopard (nor through the Boot Camp Assistant), and any third-party app that does that is unsupported if your partition and/or data get whacked.

Note that the BC Assistant only allows for the creation or removal of a Windows partition.
 

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Ok, so I need to basically format the Windows drive, and add that hard back to Mac, and then create another partition with a different size if I wanted to?
 
you can dynamically resize partitions with disk utility. now if this applies to bootcamp i dont know but would be nice
 
i dont know if it works with bootcamp but you go to disk utility then click your hd and the partition tab

lol dont hold me liable haha
 
JohnNotBeatle said:
As it stands, Boot Camp partitions cannot be resized on-the-fly through Leopard (nor through the Boot Camp Assistant), and any third-party app that does that is unsupported if your partition and/or data get whacked.

Note that the BC Assistant only allows for the creation or removal of a Windows partition.
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dukebound85 said:
you can dynamically resize partitions with disk utility. now if this applies to bootcamp i dont know but would be nice
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Wasn't I clear enough?
 
The best way to resize a Boot Camp partition that I know of is to use Winclone to create an image of the Boot Camp partition, remove and recreate the Boot Camp partition using Boot Camp Assistant, and then restore the Winclone image back to the Boot Camp partition.
 
Easy way to do it (at least with the beta using Tiger) is to clone your windows partition using Winclone:
http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/
(sort of like SuperDuper but for windows)

Note: your bootcamp partition needs to be in NTFS, NOT FAT32 to use Winclone.

After you have cloned your partition to an external HD then use the bootcamp assistant to resize the HD partition and use Winclone to reapply what you just saved.
 
Thanks again.
Now, I'm really new to Mac.
So after I've cloned my partition, how do I delete it and give it back to the original Mac drive?
 
ktalebian said:
Thanks again.
Now, I'm really new to Mac.
So after I've cloned my partition, how do I delete it and give it back to the original Mac drive?
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Refer to post #2...

Start Boot Camp Assistant (/Applications/Utilities), print the instructions like it says, click next, you'll be at the screen you see in the post above. Take the first choice & follow the instructions. Pretty straightforward.
 
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