Adding more space to my Windows partition

[BlindSoul]

Hello.

I currently have 2 Partitions. One of them is of the Mac OSX And one of the Windows 7 through Boot Camp. Now i've been wondering if it's possible and how, To add more space to my Windows 7 Boot camp partition.


Thank you very much.

 

[spinnerlys]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Extend_or_Resize_Boot_Camp_Partition

 

[BlindSoul]

I Got the application iPartition but i don't understand how to do it with it. Can you explain me? Also, What you've sent me is pretty much confusing.

 

[balamw]

I Got the application iPartition but i don't understand how to do it with it. Can you explain me? Also, What you've sent me is pretty much confusing.

Coriolis Systems' iPartition is a £29.95 ($44.95 US) utility that runs in Mac OS X and allows resizing of all of the relevant partition formats, including HFS+, FAT32, and NTFS. It provides a Mac-oriented user interface that may be easier to manage than some of the free utilities. As it is not capable of resizing the boot disk, it requires a bootable external disk or a boot DVD. (A tool to create a boot DVD is included.)

Step 1: Get something else to boot from. Create a boot DVD using iPartition, or install OS X on an external (USB) drive.
Step 2: Boot from that something else, then run iPartition
Step 3: Use iPartition to change the sizes of the partitions on your internal drive.
Step 4: Reboot.

EDIT: I forgot Step 0: Before doing anything with your partitions make sure you have a recent/valid backup or two.

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[BlindSoul]

I really didn't understand Step 1. And i don't really know making back-ups. I'm a new Macer, I started only a week ago and never really needed these kind of things.

 

[balamw]

I really didn't understand Step 1. And i don't really know making back-ups. I'm a new Macer, I started only a week ago and never really needed these kind of things.

So you bought a $45 piece of software without any idea of what you'd do with it?

I'm afraid that it will be easier and safer for you to erase Windows and start again then. Did you install it yourself the first time?

I'd still expect you to have a backup before doing any of that.

Read:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1553
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html
http://www.bombich.com/
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Then user Boot Camp Assistant to restore your drive to it's original single partition state, and start installing Boot Camp all over again.

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[BlindSoul]

I guess i will just try first with Winclone:
1. Backup Windows partition with Winclone.
(if the new Windows partition is smaller than the old one make sure you set the preferences in Winclone to save the image as an uncompressed dmg)
Resize Mac OS (HFS+) partition
Delete old Windows partition
Create new Windows partition as MS-DOS (FAT) in free space after Mac OS partition.
(If the new Windows partition is smaller than the old one an additional step is required: shrink the filesystem on the image by selecting Tools->Shrink Windows (NTFS) Filesystem)
Restore Winclone partition over new Windows partition