Cant increase partition size

Recently I partitioned my drive so I could transfer files from my mac partition to my bootcamp partition (I had 3 partitions total). I had some problems with that partition so I deleted it using disk utility (I ended up with 2 partitions and free space, see picture). Next I tried increasing my mac partition and when i click apply, the progress bar shows as if it is working but when its done, it reverts back to the previous state with no error messages. Please help.
Click here to see the problem in a video.

Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the MacintoshHD partition to a external GUID OS X Ext J formatted blank powered drive.
Use WinClone 3 to clone the BootCamp partition to another drive.
Boot from the 10.6 install disk, Internet Recovery (command option r held at boot) or option/alt from the clone drive (easiest) and reformat the whole drive as you need.
If it's a hard drive, you should take this opportunity to Zero Erase, (move slider one spot to the right) in Disk Utility to map off any failing sectors in advance, takes some time but it's worth it later.
Then option/alt boot from the clone and reverse clone (also restores RecoveryHD) and then use BootCamp Utility to setup BootCamp partition anew, then use WinClone 3 to reverse clone Windows back on.

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Cannot increase partition size

I originally had three two partitions one called BOOT and one called FILES. I ran out of room on my boot drive and I was told to clone it, add a partition with a larger size and clone it back to the larger parttion. I crteated BOOT 2 and then once cloned back I deleted BOOT.
Now I cannot increase the size of FILES to its original size and cannot seem to recover any of the space from the original BOOT parttiion. Neither BOOT 2 or FILES can be increased. How do I acheive this?
Here is a screen capture of what is going on.......

You can not do that with Disk Utility. While it can be used to create and resize partitions, it can not be used to regain the space between partitions if there is data on the second partition.
You might try something like > iPartition for Mac - Smart hard disk partitioning utility.
But personally if I were in that boat. I would Clone the data from the 2nd and 3rd Partitions to partitions on an external drive. Then start over by reformatting the internal drive into 1 or 2 new partitions using Disk Utility and then clone the partitions back onto the internal drive.
In addition: In OS X it is not necessary to have a boot partition and a file partition, OS X does quite well at managing everything including quite large user libraries in one partition.

Increasing partition size for windows

can i increase the size of my windows partition with bootcamp?
i installed windows at first just so that i can use some of the program and files that runs on windows. And i thought since i was going to format that partition in the FAT way then i can access files on OS X. But after the installation of windows i realize that i'd have to go to OS X and drag that file into the windows partition and then restart in windows to use them. And now it's too late (or not if you guys tell me that i can increase its size) because i've only gave the windows partition 5 GBs of capacity and after installation only 1.7 GBs is left free. What if i want to watch a movie i downloaded that is 2 GB in size? i can't possibly drag that into my windows partition after i downloaded it with OS X because it will be too big for it. What can i do now?

I believe you have to go back to the original mac partition and start from there. Just like it was a new set up of boot camp.
TTFN
Doc

Increase partition size

I have a small partition that I need to increase... I have looked all over for the .hdd file that I'm supposed to have in Boot Camp so I can run Parallels Image Tool, but I can't find it or anything close. Can this be done? What am I missing?
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Ritchie

To increase the windows partition:
Converting FAT32 to NTFS while booted into Windows:
1. Click on Start button
2. Click on Run
3. Type in Cmd and then it Enter
4.In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs and hit Enter. Please note that the "drive_letter" in the above command should be replaced with your drive letter. This is more than likely C so your command would read as Convert C: /fs:ntfs. NOTE: once you convert the partition to NTFS from FAT32 then OS X will not be able to write to it however it will be able to read it.
5. Once the partition is converted then shut down windows and boot into OS X.
Backing up windows partition:
6. Download and run an app called "Winclone" from OS X and back up the newly converted Windows boot camp NTFS partition to another drive (maybe external USB or firewire drive)
Create new partition size:
7. Run Boot Camp Assistant from OS X and delete current Windows partition.
8. Run Boot camp assistant again and recreate a new Windows partition with the increased size that you want. NOTE: Do not go through the process of installing windows from the boot camp assistant menu.
Reinstall windows backup clone onto new larger partition:
9. Close boot camp assistant and run Winclone
10. Using Winclone, unarchive your windows backup to the newly made larger NTFS partition that you just created with boot camp assistant.
OPTIONAL: to allow access to the newly converted NTFS XP file partition while in OS X
11. download and install on the OS X partition NTFS 3G app http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

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The easiest way I have found to do this is to backup the windows partition with a program such as WinClone
http://twocanoes.com/winclone/
Then use the bootcamp assistant to erase and recreate the partition, finally restoring the backup to the new partition. I have done this several times with my mac and it works great.

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I am running XP on a 32GB partition through bootcamp. I'm using OS 10.5.8 for my MacPro.
I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate (upgrade) in a larger partition than before, probably a new one.
I have about 400GB of available space for this and wanted to know if it was possible before starting out. I ran out of space with 32GB for XP and figure a good 100GB partition would be safe with all the updates etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I believe you have to go back to the original mac partition and start from there. Just like it was a new set up of boot camp.
TTFN
Doc

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Pick yourself up by your own bootstrap too?
Reinstall after restoring to HFS only then.
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Hello,
I need to know if it is possible to increase the size of my startup partition. I have a 320gig drive that I put in my MacMini. I had given my startup partition 100Gig, and then created 2 other partitions. I've since started getting messages that my diskspace was running low and wondered how that could be. Well, upon using Grandprespective I found I have a 45gig .sparsebundle file, which I believe is related to my use of FileVault. I had tried to turn off File Vault, but it then tells me that I don't have enough space to turn it off. My thinking, if it wasn't taking up so much space I wouldn't have that problem to begin with......
So then I thought I might be able to adjust the size of my startup partition, but after I shrink the size of the partition next to it, it still will not let me shrink the size of my start up partition.
Is it not possible to decrease the size of a startup partition?
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Don't partition.
Off load files to another drive.
Clone and backup and then restore to a single HFS+ partition.
Partitions either don't work, get in the way, or you/I have to be ready to redo them.
Now, there may be a 3rd party program you can buy, but I'm not sure and of course you should not try anything without backups.
First thing that comes to mind would of course be "iPartition" but as I said, never used or read anything on.
The other, to buy yet again another larger or 2nd drive.

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How do I increase the boot camp partition size without erasing contents?

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
WinClone http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/ and a how-to is in their FAQs http://www.twocanoes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=515
Paragons CampTune http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/ has worked for some (haven't tried myself, though).
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Hi,
I don't know much about Macs or OSX so bear with me.. I have been searching for a simple way to increase the size of the System Volume on my daughters MacBook running Maverick. She keeps getting a warning to say that the start-up disk is full or nearly full. I have used drive magic to clear some of the temp files and also used monolingual which has helped.
The trouble is that the System Volume only has 74 MB of free space whilst the User Data partition has 172GB of free space. I have tried to clean the disk using utilities and have moved the User folder to the User Data partition but that is not really helping..
Is there a way to expand/extend the System Volume area so that it doesn’t constantly run out of space without losing the User Data?
I can’t update applications because if I try I get told there is not enough disk space available…
I have uploaded some screenshots that may help:
System Volume:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7548959/sv.jpg
User Data:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7548959/ud.jpg
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Everything there looks ok in that screenshot (I was looking to see if there was any [Backup] data, but you only have 400MB in the User Data partition)
I would suggest that you just have one partiton (usually named Macistosh HD, but you can name is anything you want. (Is there a reason why you have it partitoned this way?)
To expand the System Volume partiton, you first need to delete the User Data partiton.
BACK UP ALL DATA
Copy all files from the User Data Partion to an external HD (or flash drive)
In Disk Utility, select the Partiton Tab, click the User Data Partiton and click [-] to Remove
Drag the Right Corner of the System Data partiton to expand the partiton
OPTIONAL
           a) Click [+] to Add Back the User Data partiton
           b) Move the slider between the partitons to re-size
    6. Click [Apply]
    7. Copy back the User Data from the External Drive (or flash drive]
For more info see: Disk Utility - Add, Delete, and Resize Existing Volumes

Increase startup disk partition size

Greetings,
I need a simple way to increase the size of my startup drive. Currently my SSD drive has 2 equal partitions of approximately 250GB. The top partition has no data or applications, it is empty and can be eliminated. The lower partition is 95% full with applications only. The operating system is 10.8.5.
Can I simply copy everything from my Home Folder (all my applications and operating system) to a secondary drive, then reformat the impacted original startup drive to one partition, then copy the Home Folder back? Will the operating system work properly? Will applications work properly? Sorry for these basic questions, but I would sincerely appreciate any knowledge on this topic.
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Use a program such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper to clone the contents of the bottom partition to the top one, restart from the top one, delete the bottom one, and then resize the remaining partition to the size of the drive.
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