I have a Mac Pro with four internal drives. One of these is the 320gb stock drive from Apple. This drive has got an OS X partition, and a Bootcamp partition with Vista 64. I want to get rid of the OS X partition, and make all that space available for the Bootcamp partition (i.e. turning the entire 320gb disk into one single Bootcamping nirvana).
How do I do this, without risking the loss of any of my Windows apps?
The details:
The OS X partition mentioned is the very same that shipped with the 320gb disk on my Mac. I do not use that partition at all, but at the time it felt right to keep it around for troubleshooting and testing before installing stuff into my everyday-used OS X drive (which is a dedicated 750gb drive on the same Mac).
The Vista partition (NTFS formatted) occupies half of that 320gb disk (Vista installed via Bootcamp run off another OS X drive). I thought I would never need more space for Windows stuff (mostly games, and the occasional Windows only application). But now I have only 12gb free space left for my Vista partition, and I have realised that I need lots more (i.e. filling that entire 320gb with Vista).
I know there are applications out there to increase the size of a Windows partition, but things get confused for me because of that existing never-in-use OS X partition on the same disk.
I would really appreciate it if I could get an easy walk-through on how to embark on this mission (and forgive me if this question has been asked before - I've searched and didn't find the answers I need). The thing is - it is easy to get info on how to get rid of the Bootcamp partition, but I cannot find anything about how to get rid of the Mac formatted partition... And anyway I'm a Mac user at heart, and certainly not too blessed with Windows knowledge (which is good, right? Right?).
Thanks for any input.
How do I do this, without risking the loss of any of my Windows apps?
The details:
The OS X partition mentioned is the very same that shipped with the 320gb disk on my Mac. I do not use that partition at all, but at the time it felt right to keep it around for troubleshooting and testing before installing stuff into my everyday-used OS X drive (which is a dedicated 750gb drive on the same Mac).
The Vista partition (NTFS formatted) occupies half of that 320gb disk (Vista installed via Bootcamp run off another OS X drive). I thought I would never need more space for Windows stuff (mostly games, and the occasional Windows only application). But now I have only 12gb free space left for my Vista partition, and I have realised that I need lots more (i.e. filling that entire 320gb with Vista).
I know there are applications out there to increase the size of a Windows partition, but things get confused for me because of that existing never-in-use OS X partition on the same disk.
I would really appreciate it if I could get an easy walk-through on how to embark on this mission (and forgive me if this question has been asked before - I've searched and didn't find the answers I need). The thing is - it is easy to get info on how to get rid of the Bootcamp partition, but I cannot find anything about how to get rid of the Mac formatted partition... And anyway I'm a Mac user at heart, and certainly not too blessed with Windows knowledge (which is good, right? Right?).
Thanks for any input.