I cloned my internal drive to a larger drive... bootcamp issues...

MacBookPro unibody 2.66... 10.5.8
i want to swap a larger drive into my laptop... old 320g for a 7200rpm 500g...
i cloned my internal drive to the larger externally enclosed drive... it took 4.5 hours with copycatx...
before i physically swap the two drives, i want to be sure i can do the following...
i'll need to use the new available free space (167g...) for at least one new mac partition to run as a separate boot-up...
i understand there are issues with bootcamp when either resizing or partitioning....
i took a look with disk utility to see the free space and perhaps format that space for the other mac bootup... i saw a warning that bootcamp might get affected...
i then took a look with drive genius.... when i looked at the repartitioning page, i saw no warning...
i formatted the free space as journaled hfs+...
when i attempt to run "vmware fusion" to launch the windows partition i get an error of the partition not meeting it's original specs... something like that... i tried a few things from within "vmware fusion"... reassigning the windows partition... importing... nothing doing...!
my question is for someone who has specifically done a cloning of a dual boot disk drive onto a larger drive, swapped out the drives and has successfully commandeered the remaining free space as a new mac partition...
seems like something that should be easy enuff to do....?
but perhaps it needs a more exact path for success...
help....?
thank you...
M

Hi M,
a later done partitioning to add additional partitions to a harddisk alters the position of the BootCamp partition in the partition table so that the Windows Bootloader can not 'find' the Windows partition.
With Windows XP it helped to simply edit the Boot.Ini file and point it to the WIndows partition.
With Vista and Windows 7 there no longer is a boot.ini but EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 can do the same.
One thing to remember though is, that even Vista and Windows 7 'suffer' from the limitation of four partitions on one harddisk immenent to the Master Boot Record (MBR) since Apple EFI/GPT/MBR emulation can not handle Extended Partitions and Logical Partitions inside an Extended Partition.
Regards
Stefan

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