Boot Camp Partition Size?

I'm thinking of installing a boot camp partion. Does boot camp choose the size or do I. If I do, what's a good size to make it. I really will only run Office 2003 and my BlackBerry Desktop software and some browsing with IE.

Brand new Mac user here who just made "the switch".
I've also wondered "how large should I make the partition?"
On the Windows partition, I intend to install XP SP3, Microsoft Office Suite, Project, Visio, and Adobe Acrobat/LiveCycle/Photoshop (at least those are the "heavy hitting" apps.) I also plan to run Parallels.
I was alarmed to see that the suggested partition size for Vista is 60-70GB. But I never migrated to Vista because of all of its issues, bloatware, etc. and stuck with the tried and true XP. When I look at the tech specs for XP, the suggested available space is substantially smaller than the space required for Vista.
I see that Boot Camp Assistant defaults to 32GB and that anything higher than 32GB prevents sharing between partitions.
So some questions:
1. Is 32GB enough/not-enough/more-than-enough size for my intended OS/applications indicated above? As it is, my HDD is 320GB.
2. Do I care about sharing between partitions? More simply put: if I am running Parallels and running MS Word (which would be living on the Win side of the house), will I have the option to save my doc on the OSX side only if the partition is <32GB?
3. And as follow on to #2, what are the ramifications of creating a Win partition >32GB from a usability standpoint? I'm having trouble discerning what those really are in layman's terms.
4. Please confirm: when I run Boot Camp Assistant, should I create the Win partition as NTFS? Is this dependent on the size of the partition and if yes, what are the suggested formats in regards to size?
Any guidance would be immensely appreciated.

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WinClone 3 $20
When you move to a new OS: clone your system, make sure you have backups you can use - for each - the partition table "rules" change with each new OS. And you want to reformat a drive from time to time especially then.
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4 is a good way to clone your OS X partitions.
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www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
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I have a MacBookPro 9,1 (mid-2012, non-retina) running OS X 10.8.2. Here is what I have done to my system:
Installed Windows 7 x64 Pro to a boot camp partition; installed all windows updates.
Using WinClone, save an image of this boot camp partition.
Removed optical drive and HDD.
Installed HDD in place of optical drive.
Installed SSD in place of HDD.
Booted to recovery partition, installed OS X on a flash drive.
Booted to flash drive, created fusion drive using [MacWorld's instructions](http://www.macworld.com/article/2014011/how-to-make-your-own-fusion-drive.html)
Booted to recovery partition on flash drive.
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I am now completely at a loss as to how to proceed, and Google isn't much help either.
In conclusion, here is some information that you may find helpful:
    $ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         239.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         648.4 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                100.9 GB   disk1s4
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Mayfly                 *884.0 GB   disk2
$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 63DC419F-1A09-4C5B-977A-F59F79502CA1
   =========================================================
   Name:         FusionDrive
   Size:         888087773184 B (888.1 GB)
   Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
   |
   +-< Physical Volume B1B14251-2DB3-491C-9E7A-5C2FD11881BA
   |   ----------------------------------------------------
   |   Index:    0
   |   Disk:     disk0s2
   |   Status:   Online
   |   Size:     239713435648 B (239.7 GB)
   |
   +-< Physical Volume D0BA2837-514D-4620-8E1D-26D18137CA94
   |   ----------------------------------------------------
   |   Index:    1
   |   Disk:     disk1s2
   |   Status:   Online
   |   Size:     648374337536 B (648.4 GB)
   |
   +-> Logical Volume Family 736A8900-FE9C-4342-A932-EDC35444774C
       Encryption Status:       Unlocked
       Encryption Type:         None
       Conversion Status:       NoConversion
       Conversion Direction:    -none-
       Has Encrypted Extents:   No
       Fully Secure:            No
       Passphrase Required:     No
       |
       +-> Logical Volume B4997853-59F8-4480-BB48-3481B2F2A123
           Disk:               disk2
           Status:             Online
           Size (Total):       884000030720 B (884.0 GB)
           Size (Converted):   -none-
           Revertible:         No
           LV Name:            Mayfly
           Volume Name:        Mayfly
           Content Hint:       Apple_HFS
$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk1
Password:
gpt show: disk1: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
      start        size index contents
          0           1         MBR
          1           1         Pri GPT header
          2          32         Pri GPT table
         34           6
         40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 1266356128      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1266765768     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1268035304         280
1268035584   197111808      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1     geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 1268035583]     *2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1268035584 - 197111808] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

My setup is very similar to your's, Ryan, on a Mac Mini5,2 and the ordering is different and Winclone was not used.
1. New Mini with internal 500GB with Mountain Lion(ML), put into an external FW enclosure, so the Mini can/could be booted using an external drive for contigency.
2. Replaced internal stock HDD (500Gb/5400rpm) with SSD/HDD (256Gb SSD/1TB 5400rpm).
3. Installed W7 x64 on 64GB partition on HDD, which was a single-partition drive to begin with.
4. The remaining HDD partition and the entire SSD was put into a Fusion drive.
5. Using Command-R, new ML installed on Fusion HD.
Here is what I currently have...(Disk0 - SSD, Disk1- 1TB HDD, Disk2 - Fusion, Disk3 - External FW).
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         255.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         934.5 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                64.9 GB    disk1s4
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Fusion HD              *1.2 TB     disk2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk3
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Rescue HD               371.8 GB   disk3s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Leopard HD              31.9 GB    disk3s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Snow Leopard HD         31.9 GB    disk3s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Lion HD                 31.3 GB    disk3s5
   6:                 Apple_Boot Lion Recovery HD        650.0 MB   disk3s6
   7:                  Apple_HFS Mountain Lion HD        31.3 GB    disk3s7
   8:                 Apple_Boot Mountain Lion Recove... 650.0 MB   disk3s8
diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group A8C00490-0E14-401F-AB69-59F37724E8C4
    =========================================================
    Name:         Fusion
    Size:         1190201270272 B (1.2 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 4772013B-5520-4801-9BE5-BCAEF4AEDAB3
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     255716540416 B (255.7 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume A679A101-3C78-4A59-B5EE-A4339210CFAD
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     934484729856 B (934.5 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 5EF5C7CA-0B9C-4169-82A1-41C84F206672
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 1512657C-ED13-4B31-82C6-7AECBBCA7F98
            Disk:               disk2
            Status:             Online
            Size (Total):       1185508581376 B (1.2 TB)
            Size (Converted):   -none-
            Revertible:         No
            LV Name:            Fusion HD
            Volume Name:        Fusion HD
            Content Hint:       Apple_HFS
sudo gpt -r -vv show disk1
gpt show: disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 1825165488      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1825575128     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1826844672   126679040      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Cloned boot camp partition won't boot

I've bought a new SSD, installed OSX and used Disk Utility to make 2 partitions. 1 for OSX and another fat32 partition for win XP.
I cloned my old windows xp boot camp partition with dd.
then I followed the instructions to add a new hybrid master boot record and marked the partition bootable (sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0, flag 4).
But the Boot camp partition doesn't show up during boot while pressing ALT and vmware is not able to boot into windows.
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 967742600] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 968152240 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969421784 -   30531248] HPFS/QNX/AUX (it's FAT32 not NTFS!, however this changed after sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0 flag 4)
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   967742600      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   968152240     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   969421784    30531248      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
I can't use winclone, cause they cancelled the fat32 support and older versions don't run unter osx 10.9.
Thanks for your help.

What is a startup repair?
Could please look over that.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            492.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS HD              15.6 GB    disk0s4
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   960937496      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   961347136     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   962616680     6805104
   969421784    30531248      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 960937496] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 961347136 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969421784 -   30531248] Win95 FAT32L
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/rBootcampDisk count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c 8e c0 8e d8 be 00 7c bf 00 |3.....|......|..|
00000010 06 b9 00 02 fc f3 a4 50 68 1c 06 cb fb b9 04 00 |.......Ph.......|
00000020 bd be 07 80 7e 00 00 7c 0b 0f 85 0e 01 83 c5 10 |....~..|........|
00000030 e2 f1 cd 18 88 56 00 55 c6 46 11 05 c6 46 10 00 |.....V.U.F...F..|
00000040 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 5d 72 0f 81 fb 55 aa 75 09 |.A..U..]r...U.u.|
00000050 f7 c1 01 00 74 03 fe 46 10 66 60 80 7e 10 00 74 |....t..F.f`.~..t|
00000060 26 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 ff 76 08 68 00 00 68 00 |&fh....f.v.h..h.|
00000070 7c 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 56 00 8b f4 cd 13 ||h..h...B.V.....|
00000080 9f 83 c4 10 9e eb 14 b8 01 02 bb 00 7c 8a 56 00 |............|.V.|
00000090 8a 76 01 8a 4e 02 8a 6e 03 cd 13 66 61 73 1c fe |.v..N..n...fas..|
000000a0 4e 11 75 0c 80 7e 00 80 0f 84 8a 00 b2 80 eb 84 |N.u..~..........|
000000b0 55 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 5d eb 9e 81 3e fe 7d 55 |U2..V...]...>.}U|
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I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?

I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?
I have tried bootcamp and have had no luck due to the fact that boot camp doesn't see the additional HDD space of 250Gb. What am I not doing?

Ouch, well there is a problem.
This is the stack of partitions on your old drive
EFI (hidden)
Lion (50GB say)
Bootcamp (50GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
This is the same stack on your new drive imaged from the old one.
EFI (hidden)
Lion (50GB say)
Bootcamp (50GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
Emtpy Space (100GB say)
This is what you want
EFI (hidden)
Lion (100GB say)
Bootcamp (100GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
EFI has to be at the top of the drive and Lion Recovery has to be at the bottom of the drive.
And you only have four partitions.
You can't move the Lion Recovery Partition or Bootcamp partiton, however you can expand the Lion Partition into empty space below it. (but can't delete or move the Lion Recovery partition)
Your Duplicator duplicated perfectly, too perfectly Likely would work with same sized drives/partitions.
This is what your going to need to do.
You need to move the Bootcamp partition to a blank external drive using WinClone and disconnect. This is so you have two backups of it. (one on your old 500GB drive)
You will need a drive enclousre or IDE/SATA to USB adapter cable for the older 500GB drive and option key boot from it. (some enclosures can't be booted from so check first Other World Computing is good place to ask)
Download the free Carbon Copy Cloner, grab any new files off the new 750GB internal drive to the old 500GB your booted from.
Open Apple's Disk Utility and Erase with Zero option the entire internal 750GB drive and let it rip, this will map off as many bad sectors and improve reliability.
Now use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the 500GB Lion + Lion Recovery Partitions to the internal 750GB, it will "fix" things and place Lion Recovery at the bottom of the drive where it belongs, give all the extra space to OS X Lion.
Next your going to have to follow WinClones instructions to restore your Bootcamp, likely you will have to recreate the Bootcamp partition first (in Bootcamp) to the size you want and then clone. Likely Winclone may "fix" Windows to recognize it's in a new larger partition now. I don't know you'll have to check as I haven't used it.
When Bootcamp creates the partition it will place it near the bottom next to the Lion Recovery Partition.
As you know you will have to re-validate Windows with Lord Redmond or it expires as you changed the hardware.

Can't see Windows 7 Boot Camp partition from Mac

I've had a Win7 boot partition on my 2011 MBP for a while and it boots just fine. I have a Mac boot partition, a Mac data partition, and a NTFS Win 7 partition. But the Boot Camp partition is greyed out and invisible when booted in to the Mac.
When in Windows, I can see and use the Mac partition from Win7 with MacDrive. The problem is that I cannot see the Windows partition from the Mac. I have Paragon NTFS for Mac installed as well as MacFuse. I tried to see the partition with CampTune and got this error:
I also tried going to the BootCamp Assistant and saw this:
Yet when booted in Windows, I see the Mac partition just fine.
Here is the disk info from terminal:
Uptime: 11:57 up 3 days, 12:28, 2 users, load averages: 0.56 0.56 0.64
~ > sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   469926800      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   470336440      262144
   470598584   699733064      3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1170331648      262144
1170593792   294553600      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
~ > sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 469926800] HFS+
3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 470598584 - 699733064] HFS+
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1170593792 - 294553600] HPFS/QNX/AUX
~ >
Does anyone know if I can repair this without having to re-format? I have a 13" White MacBook as well and this setup works just fine. I did it such a long time ago that I forgot how I did the first one.
There is another thread on here that similar but not quite like my problem because I ca actually boo into Windows.
If anyone can help it would certainly be appreciated!
Thanks,
Randy

go to --------http://www.cnet.com/news/boot-camp-partitions-not-working-after-installing-os-x- lion/#postComments
just disable your ntfs software --- no need to uninstall

Can't install windows it says the boot camp partition is not formatted as a NTFS file structure

Using boot camp assistant it gets to the point of installing windows 7 and it won't because the boot camp partition is not a NTFS file structure. It also seems strange to me that there are 5 partitions would have expect ether 2 or 3. Please help this is very frustrating.
Thanks in advance

Open, if not so already, the Windows formatter. Identify the BC Windows partition. It will be the one listed with the proper size you created and/or will be labeled as a C: drive. Be careful you select the right one or you may be corrupting the entire drive.
Format the partition as NTFS.

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