How do I expand the partitioned protion of my hard drive further for windows?

My name is Ryan,
I have and am running Windows 7 on my Mac, I went through bootcamp and partitioned 20GB from my Hard drive.
I need to add a minimum of 10GB and a max of 20GB to the partitioned Windows portion. I have more than enough memory on my mac to cover 20GB.
When I try to partition more in Utilities, it will only give me the option to delete the Windows portion, not to add to it, I can not contract the Macintosh (or expand it for that matter). I merely can only stare at them. How do I get over or around this wall?
Thank you,
Ryan Miller

You can't saw off the limb you are standing on, or resize the Volume you are booted from.
You may be able to resize that Volume if you boot to Recovery mode, and use Disk Utility from there.

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