Need help Cloning a Bootcamp partition

I need to install a larger hard drive in my Leopard MBP that has a HFS+ and a FAT32 partition running Win XP.
Moving the HFS+ partition is no big deal, but I really could use some step by step guidance in moving the contents of the existing FAT32 partition to a new and larger FAT32 partition.
I essentially need to backup to an intermediate drive, and then to the new larger target drive. I have been trying to use Disk Utility, but am unable to get a partition that is bootable. I have tried doing a "throwaway" WinXP install on the partition, but am unable to write over the files there, because many of them are locked. I am not running NFS.
Any guidance would be appreciated.

I'm not sure if this will work, but.... What if you used the Microsoft Backup Utility to back-up the files to an external hard drive (you will need an NTFS partition on the external), use bootcamp to create the larger FAT32 on the new drive, install a fresh copy of windoze on the new drive, then use the Microsoft Backup Utility to restore the files from the external hard drive.

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I need to expand the bootcamp partition, any EASY method?

I searched a few methods for expanding the bootcamp partition, but a lot of people screwed it up. Does anyone know any easy method that wont screw up my bootcamp partition?

You can do it via Gparted c booted from a PartedMagic cd.
There is a GUI, but you really know what your doing and make sure your GUID table is updated.
I would try this experimentally on a external drive several times before risking your main drive, then have bootable clone backups and/or TimeMachine drives standing by to get your machine back in order if something messes up.
Been meaning to give this a shot myself, setting up my quad boot system with Lion right now.
http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=using_gparted

Help needed with delete of bootcamp partition, error message 'Couldn't unmount disk'

Hello all
Sorry if this issue has been repeated elsewhere, I did search but there wasn't a discussion relating to my specific issue.
When we bought the iMac a couple of years ago, my husband partitioned the hard drive to run Windows via Bootcamp. Having got used to the Mac and experiencing the frustration between having to reboot to access each partition I have decided to restore the Mac to factory settings and install Parallels 8 so I can continue to use Office and Coreldraw).
So having backed up all of my files, I started the Mac up holding the 'Alt' key and then loaded the Recovery HD mode followed by Disk Utility. I then selected Bootcamp and erased all data from the partition. [Note: there are 2 files left which it won't allow me to erase through this method]
I then selected the main drive and the tab 'Partition', from the layout I then selected Bootcamp and clicked the minus button. I get the message confirming which partition I am about to delete and hit remove. I then get the error message 'Partition failed: couldn't unmount disk'.
I would be very grateful for some help please? I am not the best techy person but happy to give anything a go.
Just to mention there is nothing left on the Mac that I want to keep, therefore if there is an easier way than having to delete the partition then happy to hear it.
Thanks
Tara

Hello Tara,
Are you using Filevault?
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2013/03/file-vault-volumes-cannot-be-resized/
Also see the last few posts here...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3894449?start=15&tstart=0

I need help with creating a partition with bootcamp. I run OSX Lion and want to also run Windows 7.

Bootcamp is not allowing me to create the partition. The message i get when i try to do so is as follows:
The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.
Back up the disk and use 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.
I am looking in Disc Utility and am not sure what to do.
To me it looks like i only have one 'single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. So i am not sure exactly what it is requiring me to do?
Help greatly appreciated!

Look to the right under "More Like This". Your issue has been discussed many many times. The error you are seeing is because you do not have enough free "contiguous" space on your hard drive. Read the other threads that address this issue to find how to solve the issue.
Or, put "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved" into the search box at the upper right of this page.

I need help cloning a new hard drive

Hey Guys,
I just bought a new WD 500gb Scorpio Black Hard Drive. I also bought a hard drive enclosure. I'm trying to clone the new hard drive so I can replace it with the old one. I just have a few questions since this is my first time doing anything to my Macbook Pro. Do I have to create a new image to the desktop in order to start cloning the hard drive using Carbon Copy Cloner? I don't know if I'm doing it right, the disk utility progress says creating new image and reading whole disk (unknown partition). Am I going in the right direction? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.

Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external new drive. Source means the internal old drive.
Remove the new drive from the enclosure and replace the old drive in the computer with it.

Need help setting up bootcamp on MBP 17"

Hey All,
I should be getting my MBP 17" in a few days and so I'm starting to get things ready to get it all set up.
My intention is to run Vista/Windows 7 as my main OS, so I have a few questions about how to go about doing this.
1. Can I use and OEM version of Vista with Bootcamp?
2. When I partition the HD, (320 Gig), how much should I leave for OSX?
3. Can I access my files in both OSX and Vista (music, photos, work)?
4. Can I set the notebook to boot to Vista as the default?
Basically, I'm new to this so any help you guys could offer would be great. As well, if there is anything I should look out for or be aware of, I would appreciate the heads up.
Thanks!

Hi crazylegsmurphy,
Question No.1
Yes you can install the OEM version of windows Vista
Question No.2
Depends which OS you will be using most frequently. If you dont use OSX alot, leave at least 30GB-40GB of space. preferably try to leave more. And vice versa if you are not going to use Vista alot.
Question No.3
Unless you install via VMware or parallels then No you cannot access data simultaneously ( as far as i am concerned ) unless you install this program https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITTUT/AccessOS+X+partition+from+Windows+in+BootCamp
Question No.4
yes you can make Vista boot as default but i don't know exactly how to see it offhand.
Regards,
Andrew
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Need help converting SQL "OVER (PARTITION BY )" to JPQL equivalent - JPA

Having trouble converting this query:
select
sdi,
val,
vldtn,
TO_CHAR(sdt, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss AM')
from
select
sdi,
val,
vldtn,
sdt,
max(sdt) over (partition by sdi) as MaxDate1
from
r_ins
) x
where x.sdt = x.MaxDate1
and sdi in (1234,2345,3456,4567,5678,6789,7890);
to JPQL equivalent using JPA
Able to convert simple queries but I do not know how to handle the "over (partition by sdi)" portion of the query.
Can anyone help
TIA
Jer

Paul Horth wrote:
Why have the power (and cost) of Oracle and then not use those powerful features because you are restricting yourself to a vanilla set of SQL because you are using some generic framework.You know how it is :
1 - Application developers create code & queries but only test them on tiny database with low volume and no concurrency at all.
2 - Application goes Live, Database grows (as expected) but stupid optimizer is not as fast as on test environment (that was mostly empty)
3 - Queries are now 200 times slower.
4 - Expensive DB expert comes and gathers statistics, creates indexes, rewrites queries, uses hint/outline/SQLprofile.
Conclusion : Database is evil and prevent application from working efficiently, the proof of all that being : nothing had to be done on application's side to make things work correctly. Database is declared guilty.
Which could translate to :
1 - Team buy a formula one with 800HP that can reach 200mph in less than 10 seconds.
2 - Give it a pilot that doesn't even want to understand what-the-heck is a gearbox/transmission. Pilot only drives in 1st gear.
3 - The formula one is now doing 0.003 miles per gallon, doing the hell of a noise, and is limited to 80mph +(any $10000 family wagon is faster in average)+
4 - Expensive expert comes and check everything in the formula one. Finally understand the problem and modify the gearbox to a sloppy automatic transmission
Conclusion : Formula 1 is evil and prevent pilot from being fast. The proof of that being : nothing had to be changed on pilot's side to make things work correctly. Formula 1 is declared guilty.
You cannot win race without understanding how the car/engine/transmission/physics/race rules work.
Too much levels of abstraction is bad. Treating the database as a black box is the most seen "Bad Idea" these days (to my point of view).
Warning: I am biased towards Oracle :-)And so am I.
(^_^)

Need help with understanding updates, partitions, firmware etc.

I went to update my QuickTime and in doing so was told to update my OS which included QT updates. Now I'm getting all kinds of messages about partitions, firmware etc. do not understand at all what's going on.

THIS IS MY STEP BY STEP situation with my updates:
I go to the Apple Icon and selected Software Update and it reads I have 2 items:
MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.2
MacBook SMC Firmware Update 1.4
I select Install and then it state Installs completed successfully.
BUT THEN I recieve and new icon and this message below:
To update the SMC firmware on your MacBook:
Your computer's power cord must be connected and plugged into a working power source, or your battery must be at least 25% charged.
For more information see 'http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3499'.
1. Quit all other open applications.
2. Click Restart in the MacBook SMC Firmware Update window and wait for your computer to restart.
The SMC firmware update starts automatically. A status bar indicates the progress of the update. During the update your computer fans will run at full speed, but will return to normal once the update completes.
Important: Do not interrupt the update.
Your computer restarts automatically when the update is completed and opens the MacBook SMC Firmware Update.
3. Click OK. The SMC firmware is now up-to-date.
If these instructions appear on your screen again, the SMC firmware update was not successful. Repeat steps 2 and 3.
I follow the instructions and then I get this: (could get my image to attach but here's what it said)
the first error message heading of:
MacBook SMC Firmware Update 1.4
Your firmware could not be updated, the hard drive partition scheme may not be supported. You must be booted from a GUID partition or RAID scheme.
see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2434 for more information (internal error 28:3)
THEN ANOTHER ONE POPS UP saying:
Your Hard Drive partition scheme is not supported, you must be booted from a GUID partition scheme.
see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html? artnum=303609 for more information
I went to those URL and tried to understand what it was telling me but I did not understand. I can't figure, by reading thru forums, etc, if I need to do this or not and what exactly it is.
So back to just pushing a simplet update has thrown all this unknown info. my way and I have no clue what to do.
Thank you. Hope this is more clear.

Need help with Multiprovider and partitioning

Hello Bw Experts,
I have one sales cube which has 4 years of sales data. to improve the performance proposal is to create 4 separate infocubes for each year and then create multiprovider on top of that to run the quarries.
Can some one please provide me step by step guide on how I can partition the cube for each year and then how I can collect all the data in multiprovider by each year.
is any ABAP programming is required to call the data for each year in correct sequence ??? or it could be managed with simple update routines.
your help is highly appreciated and I will assign points to all the answers.
Thank you very much
Krish

Hello Krish,
How r u ?
***Assuming u have 0calday in the existing sales cube.
1. Create 4 New Cubes using COPY FROM option with the existing Sales Cube.
2. Add 2 Time Characteristics 0calmonth & 0calyear to all the 4 new cubes & Activate.
3. GENERATE EXPORT DATASOURCE for the existing Sales Cube.
4. Create Update Rules for all the 4 new cubes with the existing Sales Cube's Generated Export DataSource.
5. On the InfoSources -> Application Component -> Data Marts -> sales cube's InfoSource -> Myself Source System -> Create 4 InfoPackages.
6. The entries in the Scheduler screen for each InfoPackage.(Assume u r loading data from 1 st JAN 2002 - 31 st DEC 2005)
Data selection is for 0calday.
InfoPackage-DataSelection----
Data Target
____________From______ To________
IPA 1-------01.01.2002 31.12.2002 New Cube 1
IPA 2-------01.01.2003 31.12.2003 New Cube 2
IPA 3-------01.01.2004 31.12.2004 New Cube 3
IPA 4-------01.01.2005 31.12.2005 New Cube 4
Load the Data.
***you can do this with only one InfoPackage, if u will not miss these for every load(all the 4 Data Targets will be displayed select one by one and load the data).
By this your data will be loaded yearwise into the Cube with 3 Time Characteristics (0calday, 0calmonth & 0calyear).
You can now create the Multi Provider on top of all these Cubes and use for Reporting.
Best Regards....
Sankar Kumar
+91 98403 47141

Need Help finding JSP Bootcamp (training)

Hello,
I am an HTML developer with a bit of experience in ASP, PHP and MySQL. My company is making a commitment to JSP and Oracle and I need to get up to speed relatively quickly. Can anyone reccomend a good JSP, Oracle & OOP bootcamp.
Thanks,
Doug

I would suggest picking up a few books on JSP, it is simular to ASP (in some aspects), if you know java, it will be a breeze. Oracle? Well it takes years and talent to get good at that, alot of money to run a good O-dbase. OOP? Any good java book will teach you the basics, takes awhile to get good at that, (the concepts alone, then the coding...). Good luck!!
PS. I suggest the books from sun, i have had no complaints using them...

Need Help Cloning Old Windows XP to Mac with VMWare Fusion

Hello I'm new to the forums and I have been searching all over for a good answer on how to do this.
I have a ton of applications, docs, etc. on my old windows xp machine that I need and I am looking for a way to clone the drive it to my mac that is using VMWare Fusion. I have an external hard drive and have tried acronis true image but apparently that doesnt work. So I am looking for a good step by step process on how to do this.
Also later I want to clone the same windows xp drive to another mac that is using boot camp. will that be the same?
Thanks

The easiest way would be to put the PC hard drive into an external enclosure and use Disk Utility or a similar tool to create a disk image file that you can copy to the Mac. You may be able to read the PC disk image format and get VMWare to read the resulting image.
Even if you make it that far, I don't think you will be able to get Windows to use it as a boot drive. You will have much more success just creating a new disk image and reinstalling everything with the correct drivers. Then just copy your documents back over using more traditional methods.

Need help recovering an encrpyted partition

Hello linuXians,
I have a serious problem accessing my encrypted 2TB harddisk. I connected it in a icydock-case externally via USB.
When i add it everything is still fine:
usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
scsi9 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD20 EARS-00S8B1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdf: sdf1
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
Now i try to decrypt it as usual:
[root@silverdragon stony]# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdf1 test
Geben Sie den Passsatz für /dev/sdf1 ein:
device-mapper: remove ioctl failed: Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt
Schlüsselfach 0 entsperrt.
Apparently it succeeded in unlocking the keyslot 0 BUT the disk has problems:
Buffer I/O error on device dm-2, logical block 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 17 c8 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 6088
Buffer I/O error on device dm-2, logical block 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 17 c8 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 6088
Buffer I/O error on device dm-2, logical block 0
Now I don't know exactly how to procede or what exactly could be broken.
I assume its the superblock that i have to repair. I dont think its the luksheader or something similar.
Or do you guys think that the drive itself is broken?
Sadly the drive does not report ready so that I cant even run fsck over it to have a look at the filesystem.
What i find curious is that the drive only begins to report errors when i try to decrypt the data.
smart does not report anything unusual:
oot@silverdragon stony]# smartctl -A /dev/sdf
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, [url]http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net[/url]
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 170 140 021 Pre-fail Always - 8466
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 221
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4305
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 29
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 7109
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 108 100 000 Old_age Always - 44
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
and
[root@silverdragon stony]# smartctl -a /dev/sdf
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, [url]http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net[/url]
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1
Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2081900
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 2.000.398.934.016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Oct 10 22:03:20 2010 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (40800) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 170 140 021 Pre-fail Always - 8466
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 221
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4305
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 29
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 7110
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 108 100 000 Old_age Always - 44
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
[root@silverdragon stony]#
As expected mounting the partition fails:
[root@silverdragon stony]# mount /dev/mapper/test /mnt/test/
2 minutes delay
mount: Sie müssen den Dateisystemtyp angeben
Does anyone have any suggestion how i can get the drive to be mounted at least once to recover the data?
Kind regards,
Stony

Just a quick update: I was able to start testdisk on that devicemapper.
Lets see what it brings up....

Need help on List-Hash partition - oracle 11 feature !

Can a list-hash partitioned tabled be exchanged for a partition?
Say, the table is partitioned by list on CODE (varchar2) column and subpartitioned by a NUMBER column
i.e. create table TAB1 (ID, Code, Number)
partition by LIST (Code)
subpartition by HASH (Number)
subpartition template
( subpartition1 , subpartition2 , subpartition3)
partition part1 values ('A'),
partition part1 values ('B'),
partition part1 values ('C')
Lets say the subpartitions1,2 and 3 have values 1,2,3,4,5,6....10, how can I move only say value 1 and 2 into another table using exchange partition method? Is this possible?

>
Thanks for the reply. The db version details is as below. And I am more interested in knowing if and how can data be extracted from hash sub-partitions for a given sub-partition key value, using partition exchange. Can anyone demonstrate this or point to any article that demonstrates this? I am not even sure if something like is possible.
>
What part of my reply didn't you undertand?
Except now you are saying 'extract' where before you wanted to exchange the hash subpartition. If you exchange then the subpartition will now have NO data since it will have been exchanged with an empty table.
In a partition exchange ALL of the partition (or subpartition) is exchanged, not just part of it. So for a hash subpartition you either exchange ALL data or none of it. If you only want some of the data in the subpartition you have to query it out.
No one can provide any samples until you provide a valid sample yourself. You said your partitions have character data
partition part1 values ('A'),
partition part1 values ('B'),
partition part1 values ('C')
);But then you ask about manipulating numeric data
>
Lets say the subpartitions1,2 and 3 have values 1,2,3,4,5,6....10, how
>
Which is it?
Post the DDL for the table and show which subpartition you want to query or exchange.

How to resize my bootcamp partition without deleting itit

How can i resize my bootcamp partition to make it larger without deleting it or having to reload windows?

Yesterday expanded my bootcamp partition from 50 up to 100 Gb using Mini Tool Partition Wizard Home Edition, a Freeware Windows Program after seeing this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeKeawqxUa0
Note that I have OSX Mavericks, Steps are:
1) backup all your files (optional but strongly reccomended).
2) Using OSX Disk Utility resize MacintoshHD partition leaving unallocated space as much as you need to add to bootcamp partition.
3) Set Bootcamp as Boot Disk and restart the mac.
4) in Bootcamp with Windows running launch Mini Tool Partition and select the bootcamp partition.
5) Choose "expand" option in order to expand the partition using all the unallocated space.
6) The program prompt to you to restart the mac for apply the task, cause is not possible while the partition is mounted and windows running.
7) Restart the mac and then automatically Mini Tool Partition will do the job in a "graphic msdos like" form.
I was lucky and worked for me, I have a Late 2009 Mac Mini with MAVERICKS and a samsung 250Gb SSD Evo.
Hope this can help the community but decline any responsibility, do it at your own risk, you can use programs like winclone or camptune if you feel more comfortable with a pay app.

I have recently installed windows XP on my bootcamp partition. I am in need for the drivers and what not so that it will run effectivly and the bootcamp assistant canot find the "Windows Support Sofware" Can anyone help me find it manually?

As the title has stated, I have recently installed Windows XP on my Bootcamp Partition. I am in need of the "Windows Support Software". I am assumeing that is the information that has the Drivers and what not that allow me o properly use my Mac with windows. If anyone can help me locate this inforamtion i would be greatly.... Greatfull.
P.S. The bootcamp assistant is telling me that the Windows Support Sofware canot be found.

You both would have had correct awnsers, but i have a Macbook that is close to three years old. And i can't seem to find my Disc. The only reason i haven't ordered a new one in case of emergencies is I plan on upgrading to the new OS in less then a month.
I think the following may help me (In case anyone els is looking):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL830

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