Mac 'n' windows partitioning

Hey all, ok i've gone and done something a little rude and put windows xp on my mac (leopard) when i installed windows i partitioned 5% of my hardrive now i wish to patition a little more 10 - 15% how do i go about doing this? thanx.

Check this out. Mac OS X 10.5: About resizing disk partitions You can do this by getting rid of the Boot Camp partition. You use Boot Camp assistant to do this. Then make a new one using Boot Camp assistant to make it bigger. You will need to reinstall windows once you have resized it.

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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.

Windows partition boots to Mac OS through startup disk.

In the startup disk window, both my mac and windows partitions are visible. However, both list the Mac OS. Choosing the windows partition boots into the Mac side. I am still able to boot into windows using the option key at start up. How can I change the startup disk OS to get the windows partition in the start up disk to boot to windows?

Hello! Yes, it should work fine to use disk utility to format the drive to HFS+. Tom

IPod and Windows Partition

Hello,
I've recently purchased the latest generation MacBook with a 4th generation iPod Nano. A couple of weeks ago I had my iPod connected to the MacBook while it was running Boot Camp (on Windows XP Service Pack 2) and soon after this I noticed that my iPod said that it had no songs. I opened iTunes (on the Mac partition) to find that all the data that was once songs is now listed as "Other". After no luck with getting it to work, I chose to restore the iPod back to factory settings, but the problem still persisted. Whenever I added a song to the iPod, it would show up in iTunes on the iPod as a song, but as soon as I disconnected, the iPod would say that it had no songs, and when I reconnected, iTunes couldn't detect any songs on it.
Since then, I have tried reverting iTunes to an earlier version (as I installed iTunes 8.1 around the same time as this and thought that this may have been the problem), restoring the iPod multiple times, and eventually used Disk Utility to erase the iPod to see if that would help. I've also been looking on many forums where users have had some similar problems and tried their fixes, but none have worked.
I came across this article (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493) today which suggested changing the Drive Letter on the Windows side, which I did and changed the iPod from 'E' to 'I', and then my flash drive which was listed as the 'G' drive is no longer detected on either the Mac or Windows partition. I also ran a "Hotfix" .exe file from the Microsoft site that the support article was linking to, which didn't appear to help either. As far as I know, there is no other device that has an 'I' Drive letter (sorry I don't know much about Windows as I've been using Mac all my life).
So if someone could help me out or point me to a relevant link, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks very much

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Sharing my mp3 folder between Mac and PC partitions

Hello,
I'm a Mac newbie considering Bootcamp on a new MacBook Pro. I'm wondering what's the best way to share a folder of mp3's (about 10 GB) between my Mac and Windows partitions. I read that Fat32 partitions can be shared but they are very wasteful of disk space. What's the alternative and is it reliable? Thanks in advance!

I use MacDrive to enable Windows to see the Mac partition. Then you can tell iTunes not to copy the songs when added. I think you can even copy the iTunes Music Library.xml from the mac side

I have partitioned my time capsule, but I can't get it to work as a Time Machine back up and permanent media server for both mac and PC. What format do I need to partition the drive to so that it works for both mac and windows and so that it will be visab

I have partitioned my time capsule, as I want part of it to act as a media server for both mac and windows. However I don't know what format that I need to partition it to. I also can't make it a permanently accesible drive. I want to restore the drive to the original format (which I don't know) and start again and re-partition the drive in a format that can be used for media by both mac and PC and for time machine back-ups and make the media part of it permanetly accesible so I can add and acccess my files.
Thanks

You are mixing up a couple of things here.
The TC drive cannot be partitioned without removing it.. did you do that?
If you partition it you must use a Mac disk utility and use the HFS+ ie standard Mac format. And GUID partition table not windows type.
You can select erase disk in the airport utility.. that will take the disk back to original format. No partitions. TC is deliberately not partitioned as it is not a media server.. it is a backup device for TM. Over time .. the disk will be filled with TM backups so you have a long history of file changes to your computer.
There is no media server in the TC.. it is merely disk storage.. you can serve files from it to a media device.. but the TC itself is dumb as dumb.
Now the actual format of the drive is irrelevant to the PC.. The TC offers SMB file services to the network. You can copy files to and from the TC as if it was a local disk without caring one iota about the format. The TC handles that .. it is not a local disk .. it is a network drive.
Although you cannot partition the TC. you can still copy files to it.. this does have implications for TM.. but as long as there is plenty of free space should not be a major issue.
You can create a disk image via the disk utility in a Mac.. and as stated you can create partitions if you do it on a Mac with the disk directly connected which means breaking warranty if any exists on the TC.

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How can I remove a non=working windows partition from my mac?

Alright so when I got my computer around 3 years ago my mom installed Windows on it. Sadly it didn't work and there was an uninstall so it uninstalled it, but now I have this 10 GB windows partition that's still there but I can't boot up on it and it's wasting 10 GB of my space. HOw can I get rid of it without risking of personal data (on my mac partition)

Hi Midnight Pharaoh;
Seeing as how I don't allow anything from Microsloth into my house I am not able to answer your question from personal experience but I believe that Boot Camp can in addition to creating a partition for Winders also delete said partition. If you need more details you might try reposting in the Boot Camp forum instead of the Snow Leopard forum.
Allan

Critical Kernel error while on windows partition, now neither mac or windows will boot help ?

Hi I was on my windows side of my mac when i got the blue-screen-of-death with something saying Critical Kernel Error, weird noises from the speakers and the macbook pro did a hard shut off.
Since then I can no longer boot into the mac or windows side (both are stuck infinitely loading). I ran disk utility on the mac side and I have an "Invalid Node Structure." Which disk utility cannot repair. I do have DiskWarrior on another mac to try and rebuild the mac partition through a firewire connection - i think that is the correct course of action ?
But does this mean my windows partition is likely gone or any idea what went on ? As I am terribly confused that while on my windows side I had an error that messsed up both partitions.
Or what to check for so this hopefully doesnt happen again if it is a hardware problem? My drive smart status is listed as "OK" and I cant seem to run the Apple Hardware test as upon attempting to get into it the laptop just shuts off while loading it, although I read somewhere the Apple Hardware test is no longer preloaded on macbook pros.
The system in question is a 15" macbook pro bought around July 2011.
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Wes

Alright I have both my mac side and windows side repaired and functioning fine. Should I still be concerned ? Linc I know you are saying this is a drive malfunction but is there a way I can be sure ? I still cannot run AHT (restart, hold down D), and my laptop shipped with Lion installed so I believe it should run. It just boots into the mac side when I hold D..

Mac Pro trying to boot to windows partition by default

I recently attempted to install XP 64-bit with no luck on a second hard drive (Mac Drivers disc wouldn't recognize the 64-bit edition) so I went back into my main OS X installation and erased the partition and remade the entire second hard drive into a support HD for OS X for the time being. There should be no trace of a FAT32 partition.
But every time I boot the computer, if I don't hold Option, my MP tries to boot to the windows partition (even though it's not even there!) I know because it says in a little DOS message "Can't find disk, hit any key" or something like that. If I hold option I can easily boot to my one and only operating system, the original OS X installation, but it's just bugging me why that is happening, and happening by default!

If you install Boot Camp for Windows there will be a Startup Disk control panel that performs the same function when you are running Windows so you can reset the default startup to OS X.
OPTION booting is a temporary change meaning that the next restart will return to the previously set startup volume in Startup Disk. Startup Disk makes the switch permanent until you change it again using Startup Disk.

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I have a mac mini-snow leopard. I recently bought an external HD. I want to use part of the HD to back up my mac via Time Machine. The other part I want to use to store my Itunes and other media such as movies with VLC so that I can take the HD and play it back thru my windows XP laptop. The problem is that my laptop does not see the part of the external drive that has my mac info stored on it. Only sees the drive ( as drive E ) with zero data that was created by me when I partitioned it on my mac. I partitioned the drive in two. One partitioned under GUID for mac. The other part under exfat for windows. Any suggestions on why my XP laptop cannot view the mac info on the HD. Thanks.

DBG413 wrote:
Any suggestions on why my XP laptop cannot view the mac info on the HD.
you'll have to install e.g. MacDrive or HFS+ for Windows on your winsloth machine.

I have a mac book pro with Boot Camp that also runs windows. I upgraded to Lion and somehow it crashes the mac side peridoically. I am told I need to "clean" it and reinstall lion using the recovery drive. will that delete the windows partition too??

I have a mac book pro with Boot Camp that also runs windows. I upgraded to Lion and now the mac side crashes/freezes periodically, especially iphoto. I am told by the genius' that I probably need to "clean" it and reinstall lion using the "recovery drive" which resets everything back to default and reinstalls the lion operating system. My question is will this also delete the "windows" partition drive and all that data too. If so that will be a huge pain in the ___ to back up and reinstall boot camp and windows. I want to shoot the lion.

There is no system like Acronis for the Mac platform. You can try using the buiilt in Disk Utility to create an Image of the complete Mac drive but I have found that this does not work very well as on tryiing to restore it gives errors sometimes.
You can use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable Clone of your system partition. But that is only for the System partition and not the complete drive.
If you use Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac neither of those two programs will clone the Windows side.
Neither will Disk utility as Mac's can not create or write to a NTFS partition. So some other program is need for that.

I w system from OSX 10.5.8 to at least 10.6. Also my hard drive is partitioned for Mac and Windows (which I would like to remove). How should I upgrade?

I want to buy an Iphone 5 but need to upgrade my operating system from OSX 10.5.8 to at least 10.6.0. Also my hard drive is partitioned with Mac and Windows. How can I upgrade?

1. Click here and buy a Mac OS X 10.6 DVD.
2. Use the Boot Camp Assistant in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to return the drive to a single partition setup.
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New Hard Drive, Mac partition cloned and boots fine, but I can't seem to get my BOOTCAMP (windows) partition to boot! Any ideas?

Hello all!
I got a new hard drive for my Mac Book Pro and an enclosure so I could clone the old partitions on to the new drive.
So I...
Put the new hard drive in the enclosure.
Booted up off an install disk and ran disk utility.
Copied the Mac and Bootcamp partitions over to the new drive that was connected VIA USB.
Turned off the computer, took the old hard drive out and put it in the enclosure.
Put the new hard drive in the Mac Book Pro.
Booted into Mac OSX with no problem.
When I rebooted held down the option key to boot into the windows side, it didn't show up as an option.
When I went back into the Mac side, I loaded Disk Utility and saw that I had the Mac partition, the BOOTCAMP partition, and a bunch of unallocated space. When I went into the System Preferences and set the target boot drive to the BOOTCAMP partition and restarted, I got some crazy error about there not being any bootable info on it.
That's where I am at. I have found other posts with people who are having the same problem, but I have yet to find a solution that doesn't involve me buying some 3rd party software. I know it has something to do with (what is called in Microsoft world) the Master Boot Record, but I don't know how to modify that to reflect that the BOOTCAMP partition is a bootable logical drive. I remember in MS DOS land there was some command line FDSK /something command that you would run (I think it was /MBR) to reset the MBR. To me though, all of these terms are shadowy figures in the Ether.
What do I do???
-Ricardo
p.s. I read somewhere to boot off the windows 7 disk and run the system repair tools. I tried that and no change.

I got it. It CAN be done. At least on 10.6
How I made it happen (for free) on Snow Leopard:
1) partition, dupe etc all that jazz that you know. Make the mac side work, which it seems we've all been able to do no issues. I used SuperDuper! It worked just fine. (Had it on a disk. I assume you could use any other free way of doing this.)
2) New hard drive running, I used bootcamp assistant to partition the new drive for a new Bootcamp. I don't know if it's necessary to make the new partition this way for some reason, but it's what the process ultimately included, so maybe try without, but it worked with.
3) Natively running original drive on the windows side. Used DirveImage XML to clone windows partition onto new drive connected externally.
4) Back on new hard drive running natively. (Sorry for all the switching.) You'll note that the new Bootcamp partition is NOT bootable at this point. It won't come up in the usual 'alt on startup' boot menu.
Download rEFInd and install on mac side. Technically this is freeware or w/e, but for the love of god, throw money at this man. He totally deserves it.
5) Restarting the computer, rEFInd's boot manager finally recognizes windows. But you'll find windows is a little messed up and still won't quite boot. Get out your Windows CD and pop it in. Do the 'alt boot' thing. Your boot menu options are now "EFI Manager," "Bootcamp," and "Windows Disk." Or some such. Holy Crap! It recognizes Windows!
6) Boot to the CD and tell it to repair the windows volume. It will. My computer also had to do a disk check next time I booted to Windows, which took for-stupid-ever, but eventually worked. (I went to bed in between.)
7) Everything is running smoothly. Plus, you get the rEFInd boot manager, which is also great.
Deets: I have a late 2010 MBP 13". Snow leopard/Windows 7 32-bit (long story) Moved from original 320GB seagate momentus to new 750GB Seagate Momentus XT.
Feel free to share/copy&paste this solution as you see useful. Cheers!

Accessing files on boot camp windows partition and Mac OSx partition

Before I install Windows 7 64 bit on my iMac using Apple's instruction manual, I have a question. The manual states:
*+FAT—Provides better compatibility, allowing you to read and write files on the Windows volume from Mac OS X. This partition must be 32 GB or smaller.+*
*+If you’re installing Windows Vista or Windows 7, the Windows partition must use the NTFS format.+*
I can read, but I want to be sure I understand these two statements as they relate to each other. Because the Windows 7 partition must be NTFS format, does this mean that there is no way to read, write or copy files from one partition to the other, no matter what the partition size is?
If that is the case, I assume the best way to move files from one partition to the other would be to use a flash drive or is that also not possible due to the file format on the flash drive? I also have an external hard drive used for time machine. Any way to use that?
How will I move files from one partition to the other? And yes, I really want to do this.

Hi,
ifarber wrote:
Hi Stefan --
Could you explain how using an external HD helps? If I wanted to use an external HD for read/write access from both Snow Leopard and Windows (XP and/or 7), would it need to be in a particular format? (No partitions - this would be a new, empty drive.) If, for example, I formatted it as NTFS, could OSX write to it if it were external?
Since I don't have/use files that are bigger than 4GB in size I am able to use FAT32 as file system on the mentioned external harddisk and flash drives.
Whether I use the harddisk or a flash drive for file transport depends for me on the amount of files I have to move.
Up to 8GB of files I move with a flash drive, everything above that I use the harddisk.
Stefan

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