repartitioning without reinstalling everything?

[2ms]

When I first got my iMac and set up Boot Camp I made my Windows partition a little overoptimistically small. Now that I've got all my required work software installed it's basically turning out that I really should have made it a lot larger.

Is there a way to resize without having to reinstall everything?

I remember back in my dual booting Windows and Linux days there was a program called Partition Magic that just sorta really magically, it seemed like, did whatever you wanted with partitions on the fly.

Is there any way to do this with Leopard/Boot Camp?

 

[jmann]

Perhaps you can user a program like superduper to clone that partion. But I'm not sure if it can clone a non-mac hard drive.

 

[Matek]

There are partitioners, similar to Partition Magic on OS X as well, I have good experience with iPartition.

There are some problems you may encounter. Firstly, you need to reduce the size of the HFS+ partition. AFAIK you can do that with the disk utility after you free up enough disk space. It sometimes throws fits if the drive isn't defragged, so you may need to use a defragging tool to move all data to one side of the partition so that you may reduce its size on the other end.

After that's done, you'll need to use iPartition or a similar tool to increase the size of the windows partition and that's about it.

 

[AVR2]

You can also try CampTune.