Hello,
I am looking for the most pain free method of doing this and I am hoping someone can help.
I am planning on upgrading my hard drive in the next few weeks. The whole thing. I know I can restore the Mac portion of the drive by first placing the blank drive into the computer and formatting and installing a fresh Mac OS onto it. From there I can restore from a Time Machine backup.
My question is this though and I don't know if I am not searching right but I am surprised no one else really seemed to have asked it yet. I am looking to INCREASE my Boot Camp partition from 60ish GB to more like 150GB on the new drive. I have resized the Windows partition before using the fine utility of WinClone but I am worried how Parallels will respond this time since I didn't have Parallels last time I resized. ((Winclone backs up the Windows partitions, you then delete the Boot Camp partition, create a new Boot Camp partition with larger space, and restore the WinClone backup to that space and have WinClone expand the Windows filesystem.))
Does anyone know how Parallels will respond?
My best/safest guess is to uninstall Parallels altogether before I back up the drive then after the drive is backed up without Parallels installed, create and restore the larger partition and the reinstall/reactivate Windows.
I'd prefer to not have to reactivate Windows though when I reinstall Parallels, so is there a safe way to use Winclone to restore a larger Boot Camp partition (with Parallels still installed) that won't make Parallels flip out when booting from the restored drive?
I am looking for the most pain free method of doing this and I am hoping someone can help.
I am planning on upgrading my hard drive in the next few weeks. The whole thing. I know I can restore the Mac portion of the drive by first placing the blank drive into the computer and formatting and installing a fresh Mac OS onto it. From there I can restore from a Time Machine backup.
My question is this though and I don't know if I am not searching right but I am surprised no one else really seemed to have asked it yet. I am looking to INCREASE my Boot Camp partition from 60ish GB to more like 150GB on the new drive. I have resized the Windows partition before using the fine utility of WinClone but I am worried how Parallels will respond this time since I didn't have Parallels last time I resized. ((Winclone backs up the Windows partitions, you then delete the Boot Camp partition, create a new Boot Camp partition with larger space, and restore the WinClone backup to that space and have WinClone expand the Windows filesystem.))
Does anyone know how Parallels will respond?
My best/safest guess is to uninstall Parallels altogether before I back up the drive then after the drive is backed up without Parallels installed, create and restore the larger partition and the reinstall/reactivate Windows.
I'd prefer to not have to reactivate Windows though when I reinstall Parallels, so is there a safe way to use Winclone to restore a larger Boot Camp partition (with Parallels still installed) that won't make Parallels flip out when booting from the restored drive?