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Help @ resizing HD without erasing

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Frizzles

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Hm ok, today after long saving I bought my first apple product 😎 An imAc 24" (awesome stuff 😀)

My mom asked me to put Vista on it because she has trouble with OS X, when I used bootcamp to divide my HDD I took to much space for windows (like 450gb 😱) Only leaving me, the biggest user of this comp with 100gb on my OS X lol)

Any way to make the Windows partition smaller and add the extra free space to my OS X partition without erasing any thing 🙂 ?

Ty ^^
 
If it is a reasonably new installation of Vista and you have an external HD you can use Winclone to image it. Then you can run the Boot Camp Wizard again and repartition to the partition sizes you desire and restore the image to the new Windows partition. As long as there is enough space Winclone will automatically resize the image to fit. I've used it several times to resize my Boot Camp partition and retain my Vista install. It works great. Winclone is awesome (and donation-ware). 😉
 
iPartition gave me a warning that the disk I wanted to format was in use and bla bla bla 😛

So I thought about resizing the HD in vista itself and then use a program on OS X to get that free space and merge it with my OSX partition.

But my HD was only able to be resized by 89gb of the 450gb because of the automatic back ups and some memory thing from Windows. Since Vista was a fresh install and not alot of important stuff was on it I just did a format and then a new install and only gave it 40 GB this time 😀

Problem solved!
 
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