Increasing Boot Camp Partition Size
How do I increase the boot camp partition size without erasing contents?
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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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HT3777 Reducing Boot Camp partition size
I've never used Boot Camp since I bought my MacBook Pro in 2008 since it came with a free VM Fusion program. I have Boot Camp with nothing in it taking up 33 GB of space and I need the space. How do I reduce the Boot Camp partition size?
Here is where you will find the answer.
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/15323005#15323005
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Changing boot camp partition size
How do I change the Boot Camp partition size? I need more space on the Mac side and less space on the Windows side. Thanks.
Just posted this yesterday -
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13231342�
CampTune can do it w/o having to blow away the Windows partiton -
Recommended Boot Camp Partition Size for Windows XP
All,
What size is recommended for a Windows XP Boot Camp Partition? 100Gb? 50Gb?
Main use is to run a few programs that are not available for Mac. Most everything else will be transferred over.
Thanks
PAX
JDKalebd wrote:
All,
What size is recommended for a Windows XP Boot Camp Partition? 100Gb? 50Gb?
Main use is to run a few programs that are not available for Mac. Most everything else will be transferred over.
Depending on the programs you want to install, you can get by with very little. I have virtual XP systems that live within 8GB virtual disks. If you've got the drive space, go for ~30GB. I've found that to be a nice size for running Windows 7 within, and thus you likely won't have to mess with re-partitioning should you update the OS in the future. -
How to increase Boot Camp partition without harming both Mac and Windows partition
Hello Apple Support Communities.
I have made a Boot Camp partition with my Mac partition, but the problem is that I am running out of space on my Windows partition. (Darn you, Steam Summer Sale! )
Anyways, is there any way to increase the space on my Windows partition without harming both Mac and Windows partitions. I would prefer if I didn't need to delete the Windows Partition and do everything all over again, as I need to download and set up everything all over again. I also know that changing the Windows partition is a tricky and hard thing, and one step can harm my whole computer, but I think that it is worth the risk.
I really don't care how to do it, anything, from a bootable program, to anything. I just want to know how to do it.
So is there any way that I can increase the Windows partition of my Mac without harming both Mac and Windows partitions? Thanks.This cannot be done using Boot Camp Assistant. But, you can try using Paragon Camptune X for Mac® – How it works.
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Boot Camp Partition Size/External HDD recommendation
After updating software, hardware, downloading Boot Camp Asst, and installing Windows XP Pro (have not yet downloaded Mac drivers or software, nor have I submitted registration of my WinXP Pro software, still have 29 days), I realized that I set the partition size too small and need to resize it. I read in other postings that I can copy the Windows partition to an external HDD from the Mac OSX side, then run Boot Camp again, delete the "too small" Windows partition, then run Boot Camp again and reset the partition size larger. Does anyone have detailed instructions to do this?
Also, can anyone suggest an external HDD for this purpose? I need to be able to share files between a PC and my 17" MBP running OS X 10.4.6. Specifically, I need to share (for editing purposes) audio files created with PC-based software with the Windows side of my MBP. The PC has XP Pro and MacDrive6 for Windows installed. I read the "Sharing a FireWire drive between Mac and PC" document on "The X Lab" website and, based on this, am leaning toward getting a FW (not USB) HDD and formatting it in Mac OS Extended format (not sure how to do this but cross that bridge when I get there). Does this sound reasonable? When I run Boot Camp again and have to choose between NTSF and FAT32 should I choose NTSF? Will I also need "SharePoints" or other software to share the Mac's FW drive with the PC?
I may have the option to share and backup files over the workplace network (if I take the time to set it up). Does anyone know if there advantages/disadvantages to this option?
Thanks for answers to these questions. Any help would be very much appreciated. Best!Frank,
You might want to check the Boot Camp discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165
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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?
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Oh look, another n00by question by Ubuntuz....
I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, and I am loving it! My only drag is my partition size I set for it... I read somewhere that Decreaseing the Mac OS X partition in Disk Utility and then increasing the Windows partition within Windows 7 would work, and I was just wondering if this would work as I don't have the ability to create backups currently.
Current Situation:
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
Macbook Pro 2010 4GB RAM 15-inch 25-GB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Windows partition: 60 GB - hopefully 70 or 80
Mac partition: The rest of my 250 GB
ThanksUbuntuz wrote:
1. I don't have any disks to burn
2. I am asking a question, a simple yes or no answer would be nice...
No
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Boot Camp Partition Size Problem
Hi there,
I've got a strange sort of problem:
Running a MacBook Pro, late 2011, with an Apple 256 SSD (installed at purchase), running latest Mountain Lion.
Currently, when I get info from my HD, I have 80+ gigs free.
I want to install Win7 in Bootcamp (I have Parallels but I want to play some heavy graphic games which respond really slowly with virtualization). So I run Bootcamp assistant, and the biggest partition it says I can make for Windows is...30 gigs.
Why? I know that Mac requires at least 10gigs free (that's fine), but that should still let me get up to around 40 gigs (which is what I figure I'll need with all the installs I want to do). So....what can I do to fix this?
P.S. I know that defragging an SSD is a bad idea, and probably dosn't work anyway, so I'm not doing that (and I know you don't need to defrag in OS X anyway)
Thanks for any input. I'm a tad frustrated at this point. I already did a full backup with time machine in case anything would go wrong, downloaded the drivers to the USB thumb drive, have my Win7 CD ready...and I just can't get beyond this.Wow that's very strange. It says I have 42 gigs free, but when I get info on my drive, it says 82 gigs free.
Ok, so I read the article, and I see the problem. I just used terminal to kill snapshots (as I really don't need that...).
I tried finding the backups in /Volumes, but all I have in that folder is an alias to my HD. Any idea where else they could be? I tried using search in the finder to no avail. -
On my iMAC using Mountain Lion v. 10.8.3, is there a way to increase the size of my Boot Camp Partition after I installed Windows 8? Thanks.
Yes, purchase Paragon Camp Tune for the job.
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Any way to reduce the size of Boot Camp partition?
I made my Boot Camp partition way big and now I'd like to smallify it by about half, down to 60G or so (it's 130G now). Is there any EASY way to do this?
Many thanks,
PierIn Vista (Ultimate in my case), RightClick My Computer -> Manage: select Disk Management. In Vista you can shrink your (C:) Boot Camp partition which leaves OS intact but allows another install to new (D:) (extended) volume created within space. In XP, I think same can be done with Diskpart.exe which is in \System32. As I have, you can install another Windows OS to the new partition.
I can't see data from Leopard OS for the extension made, though I can see Ntfs files and copy/paste from original Windows (C:) volume bootcamp set up. I do not know if formatting the new split to Fat 32 would make it a share space for Leopard. -
How do I back up my Boot Camp partition to external firewire drive?
I have a 15 GB Windows XP Boot Camp partition (FAT32). I want to back it up to a 120 GB external Firewire drive. (I know the backup won't be bootable). In OX X Disk Utility, I formatted the external drive as MS-DOS (FAT). I planned to do the backup using the Windows Backup utility.
However, when booted into WinXP, Windows will not recognize the external hard drive. I thought I might need to create a FAT32 partion of 32 GB or less on the external drive, but I apparently can't do this in OS X or Windows (since Windows doesn't recognize the drive).
Any suggestions on how to backup the Boot Camp partition will be appreciated. I'm mainly interested in preserving all programs and data. Ideally, a clone could be created that could be restored back to the original partition in bootable form, but from studying this and other forums, it dosn't seem to be easy to do this for a FAT32-formatted volume.My goal was to create a bootable clone of my FAT32 Boot Camp partition, while at the same time increasing the size of the partition from 15 GB to 32 GB if possible. This is what I did:
1. As suggested in this thread, I used Disk Utility to create a disk image. I formatted it as MS-DOS (FAT), and made it 32 GB in size.
2. Used the Finder to copy all files from my 15 GB Windows XP partition to the new disk image.
The following steps were only to determine if the disk image is a viable backup:
3. Removed the internal hard drive with my original Win XP partition, and installed a new internal hard drive.
4. Used Boot Camp Assistant to create a 32 GB Boot Camp partition on the new internal drive.
5. Inserted my Win XP installation disk and started the Windows installation. Formatted the new partition as FAT32. (I used the long rather than the quick format method--not sure if this was necessary.)
6. Continued the Windows installation to the point of restarting the computer, at which time I used the Option key to boot back into OS X.
7. Used the Finder to copy all the files from the 32 GB disk image to the new Boot Camp partition. (This overwrote a few Windows files installed by the aborted Win XP installation.)
8. Restarted and used the Option key to select the new 32 GB Boot Camp Partition. Windows booted as usual with all files, programs, etc. from the original 15 GB partition. Windows did complain about "new hardware" and required a restart, but all appears normal.
This indicates that the disk image containing all the files from my original Boot Camp partition is a viable backup, and can be used to restore the partition if necessary. I'm not sure if formatting the disk image as MS-DOS (rather than Mac OS extended) was necessary, or not. -
Help with boot camp partition on leopard!
So I wanted to increase my partition disc size, because I ran out of space. So I restored it and started the whole process over again, using like 75 out of the 102 gigs of free space. This time, something went wrong. I window came up and said:
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. Back up the disk and use the disk utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended(journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
All I want to do is repartition it... I need help plz, thanks. Oh and I assumed the big files were obstacles so I deleted some 1-6 gig stuff I used to use not anymore(not any system stuff either) but that didn't work. Help!I bought a new MacBook today with Leopard. I tried to install Windows XP (with service pack 2). I chose 32GB for windows. When I clicked start installation the screen went white, the windows CD was ejected and nothing else happened.
I had to switch it off manually and then I tried to restart the MacBook. The screen was just black.
I just read this:
+This means that the Windows partition is not bootable, usually because of a formatting problem. The Boot Camp Setup Assistant creates the Boot Camp partition, but the Windows installer must format it. Boot back into Mac OS X and re run the Boot Camp Setup Assistant. Remove the partition and re create it. Then install Windows again, this time allowing Windows to format the partition. Refer to the "Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide" PDF document for more detail on installing Boot Camp.+
I couldn't reboot it into the Mac OS X so I went back to PC World and created merry ****.
They blamed me and I blamed them and said there was a formatting problem. I left the MacBook with them and they said they would try and install windows XP for me. I collect it today.
What do I do if they can't get windows on there as I don't really understand what I read above so will need something a bit clearer....step-by-step.
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Is it possible to dynamically reduce the size of my Boot Camp partition to allow room to increase my OS X partition. I really don't want to delete Boot Camp and then reinstall everything from XP to the applications so was hoping I can painlessly take 5GB out of it.
Backup both - WinClone for Windows, SuperDuper or Disk Utility Restore for OS X.
Head over to Paragon Software and download CampTune and read the directions.
For 5GB???
As for OS X, it has a fit if it doesn't have 10-20% free space, less than 10% and it can belly-up, loss of btree directory.
Sounds like time for hard drive swap actually. -
Boot Camp Partition Missing after shrinking Mac Partition
Hello Chris I have a OSX 10.9.2 running all upgrades, Powerbook 2.3g i7 16 GB , Had a boot camp partition of 49 GB, running windows 7 all working fine.
Decided to bump the windows 7 to 100 GB. Used disk utility to decrease the mac partition to 401.6
Image of the way it is now.
The Gray part is what is from the apply done the original time.
After I hit apply. I then restarted and tried to enter boot camp by holding down the altOption key as usual but only the OSX and the Recover partition where there No Windows.
NOTE: did the Windows 7 partition increase from 29 to the 49 GB before this same way and everything worked fine for over a month till i decided to double the partition to 100GB.
In the preferences the Mac Hd only shows up, no network or windows.
Network does show up when holding down altOption Key
Saw that you might be the best help I would like to talk to you and get your Genus going
After I hit apply. I then restarted and tried to enter boot camp by holding down the altOption key as usual but only the OSX and the Recover partition where there No Windows.
NOTE: did the Windows 7 partition increase from 29 to the 49 GB before this same way and everything worked fine for over a month till i decided to double the partition to 100GB. 2. In the preferences the Mac Hd only shows up, no network or windows. 3. Network does show up when holding down altOption Key
Saw that you might be the best help I would like to talk to you and get your Genus going
I ran the Items below as you have asked in the past.
Last login: Fri Jun 27 15:02:59 on ttys000
Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$ sudo gpt -r -v show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
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 784379648 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
784789288 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
786058824 95345080
881403904 95700992 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
977104896 131
977105027 32 Sec GPT table
977105059 1 Sec GPT header
Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 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 - 784379648] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 784789288 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 881403904 - 95700992] Win95 FAT32L
Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$
What to do Next ?Chris I just did what Loner T said
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
setpid 4
07
flag 4
write
I then restart and now I can see the windows partition after on restart and altOption down.
But it then gives a error can't find drive or something like that.
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