Hello,
I have searched the forums and didn't find anything specific about my need, even if HD upgrade has already been discussed to death
.
So I dared create a new thread.
Got a 2.4 Summer 2007 MPB, 160 Gig HD, running XP on boot Camp (so far, 32 Fat 32 partition).
Want to do two things in the future, one is getting more space overall and the other is getting more space on the XP partition.
More space overall: I want to wait for those 500 gig to retail and see if either they are not to expensive (and buy one) or buy a 320 one (price drop).
More space on XP: rerun bootcamp and create a bigger partition (NTSF).
The thing is, I want to increase XP now, don't want to wait up to when I upgrade my HD (and I dont want to do that every 2 months
).
Let say I rerun boocamp now, create a 80 gig NTFS XP partition (i.e. and thus let 80 gig for OSX).
Will I be able (when i upgrade the HD):
1)To clone this OSX/XP set-up on my new HD, and have it run smoothly ?
2)Once cloned (if possible), will I be able to increase the size of the partitions (both OSX and XP) without re-partitionning, i.e. erasing the XP partion and redoing it all over again, thus getting a 160 gig OSX // 160 gig XP set-up (in the case of a 320 gig upgrade) ?
Thank you in advance.
I have searched the forums and didn't find anything specific about my need, even if HD upgrade has already been discussed to death
So I dared create a new thread.
Got a 2.4 Summer 2007 MPB, 160 Gig HD, running XP on boot Camp (so far, 32 Fat 32 partition).
Want to do two things in the future, one is getting more space overall and the other is getting more space on the XP partition.
More space overall: I want to wait for those 500 gig to retail and see if either they are not to expensive (and buy one) or buy a 320 one (price drop).
More space on XP: rerun bootcamp and create a bigger partition (NTSF).
The thing is, I want to increase XP now, don't want to wait up to when I upgrade my HD (and I dont want to do that every 2 months
Let say I rerun boocamp now, create a 80 gig NTFS XP partition (i.e. and thus let 80 gig for OSX).
Will I be able (when i upgrade the HD):
1)To clone this OSX/XP set-up on my new HD, and have it run smoothly ?
2)Once cloned (if possible), will I be able to increase the size of the partitions (both OSX and XP) without re-partitionning, i.e. erasing the XP partion and redoing it all over again, thus getting a 160 gig OSX // 160 gig XP set-up (in the case of a 320 gig upgrade) ?
Thank you in advance.