Cannot make Bootcamp partition more than 32 GB

[Red Cube]

For some reason, when I installed windows using boot camp, it would not let me make a partition that was more than 32 GB. Because of that, I have very little available space on my windows partition, and I have had to use an external drive. I have freed up over 20 GB on my Mac partition, and I want to resize the two partitions, though whenever I try to resize them using disk utility, it fails because of an error. I know there is software out there for this, but I do not want to waste money on something as trivial as this.

 

[NectarMBA]

How did you notice you could not partition to more than 32GB?

Hello Red Cube,

Can you tell me how did it inform you that you could not make a partition that was more than 32 GB??

I ask the question because I have problem while trying to install Windows 8 with Bootcamp (new MBA 2013). When I try to partition with 90 GB for Windows, Boot Camp hangs and does nothing.

Reading your post I was thiniking that it is maybe because the partition size I try is above 32GB..

(However, Apple helps says that for Windows 8 the size of the partition should be 30GB minimum...)

Thanks in advance

 

[Count Blah]

Same question, how do you know this? It freezes, it tells you?

I recently made a bootcamp partition, and had to restore my whole machine from a time machine backup due to disk fragmentation. It must have a contiguous block of your requested size in or to successfully make the partition of the requested size.