Repartition Hard drive- Bootcamp?

Hey,
My brother has had my Imac g5 for the last 6 months as I have a Macbook Pro- I have just got it back from him as I want to sell it but when I went to reboot it I discovered that he has partitioned the hard drives but one of the is called Bootcamp which I believe is something to do with Windows. All I want to do is get rid of the bootcamp partition and have the one 160gb mac hard drive.
Does anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks folk!

Good question since you cannot use Boot Camp on a G5, only on Intel Macs. I'm not sure what he would have done to create a Boot Camp partition, but you can try this:
Open Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities folder. You should have an option to remove the Windows partition. Select that option and remove the partition. The drive should be returned to its normal capacity.

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Replaced hard drive, bootcamp and missing memory.

hello,
a little while ago, my hard drive gave up the ghost and so i had a replacement fitted under warrantee. previously i had partitioned my disk so that i could use bootcamp and windows when needed. after restoring my system on the new drive, i thought id lose the partition and windows and apps, i thought that time machine only backed up the osx part of my hard drive.
recently my new disk has filled up, its a 160g hard drive, and yet looking through all the files, i see that i only have about 148g used up. is it likely that the new disk was partitioned on restoring from time machine (id reserved about 10g for windows), that my 160g drive only really has a useable capacity of 148g, or that theres hidden files that are eating up storage space???
any help and remedies would be most useful!
thank you in advance.

TM does not backup a Windows partition nor does it partition a backup drive. You would need to do that separately using Disk Utility and Boot Camp Assistant.
There are thousands of hidden files installed with OS X. It's quite likely you simply can't count the space they consume by adding up the space used by what's visible.
Depending on how you are determining space on the drive you may be getting mixed calculations. Although the drive has 160 GB capacity using Base 10 arithmetic, it has a 148 GB capacity using Base 2 arithmetic. Snow Leopard is supposed to display disk space using Base 10, but I believe Boot Camp Assistant is reporting the space using Base 2. This would account for the two different numbers.

Repartitioning Hard drive

The hard drive on my G5 is split into two partitions. When I installed Tiger from Panther, only my start up disc partition "C "received the upgrade. The other half which I labeled "MacHD" has a copy of the last updated Panther OS 10.3.4. I was under the impression that when you updated to a new operating system that it read both partitions and upgraded automatically. My question is this: If I wanted to erase the "MacHD" partition and combine it with the "C" partition and not lose anything on my "C" partition, How do I do that? My Tiger discs are in another part of the country. I travel quite a bit. Is there a way to do it inside disc utility? Would I be Better off upgrading to Leopard and reconfiguring form that install disc?

Hello angelboy11, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I was under the impression that when you updated to a new operating system that it read both partitions and upgraded automatically. My
Nope, you would have had to to it twice, or clone the upgraded one to the non-updated one.
If I wanted to erase the "MacHD" partition and combine it with the "C" partition and not lose anything on my "C" partition, How do I do that?
Very dangerous under the best of circumstances, a Backup or Clone is strongly advised... unless you don't mind losing everything, in which case it's easy.
Would I be Better off upgrading to Leopard and reconfiguring form that install disc?
Leopard can supposedly do that, but A. I think you have to erase one partition first, and B. I've not yet heard of anyone doing it, (doesn't mean much, since we normally only hear of problems), I've been meaning to try it.. I just did, don't see nything that says other tan repartion will destry everything!?

Repartitioning Hard Drive on Server

I am running Windows Server 2003 with Raid 5 originally partioned into C and D drives. OS is on the c drive with only 10GB of space. I ran out of space in C drive (still critical after cleaning) and still have a lot of space on the D drive. What are my options in allocating more space to the C drive? Thank You !

Hi,
This forum is for SCE 2007 related issues. For problems with Windows server 2003, please check the resources available at:
RAID discussion in Windows server 2003 newsgroup
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=RAID&dg=&cat=en_US_d02fc761-3f6b-402c-82f6-ba1a8875c1a7&lang=en&cr=&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us
The newsgroups should be particularly helpful to you.
Here I also found some related articles for your reference:
RAID deployment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
http://www.acnc.com/04_01_05.html
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Partition of hard drive won't work...

I currently have a WD MyBook with the following info
Name : WD My Book 1110 Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : Apple Partition Map
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : WD My Book 1110 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 574341563543373737303130
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/EHC1@1D,7
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 999.5 GB (999,501,594,624 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
The drive currently has two partitions on it, one for my iMac time machine and one for my MacBook Pro time machine. When I try to repartition this drive in Disk Utility I get the error message:
"Partition failed with the error:
Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed"
I need to clear some storage space on my internal MacBook drive and I really don't want to spend money on another external disk when I have over 500 GB just sitting there empty. I would just write directly to the current partitions but OSX flips out when you try to save random files straight to a Time Machine formatted disk.

This seems to be a common question and problem around these parts. I am certain one of the resident geniuses will soon be responding.
While we both wait for that to happen, you may find some helpful information by doing a search for "repartition hard drive" or "repartition time machine" in that little search box just to the right. There seems to be lots of good information there.
But remember that monkeying around with partitioning is not without risk, and we are talking about your Time Machine backups here.
Be careful and good luck.
Arch

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Hi.
A few days after I got my Macbook, I installed Bootcamp and Windows XP Home on it. After realizing i didn't have much use for it, at the time, I removed the partition using the Bootcamp assistant. I recently re-installed Bootcamp on my Macbook, to try out some of the features again. Today I installed a program called VMware Fusion Beta, which is a virtual machine similar to Parallels. I figured, "Hey, it's free, it uses the already installed Bootcamp partition, what do I have to lose?" Well, it turns out that the VMware Fusion removed the Bootcamp partition itself, and moved it to it's system files, so now I can no longer boot with Windows XP.
The icing on the cake is that my product key for Windows XP came with another computer I had purchased, and much to my amazment, it worked when I installed through Bootcamp. Beacuse VMware Fusion allocates a certain amount of RAM, Windows is detecting a major hardware change and requesting that I reinstall. However, my product key no longer works, as Windows is saying that my product key has been used too many times already.
My question is this: If I were to uninstall VMware Fusion and re-partition my hard drive with Bootcamp, will my product key likely work again?
But moreso: Does repeatedly partitioning your hard drive and erasing and repartitioning do any serious long-term damage to the drive? I know with Windows that would create fragments, but I have heard that fragmentation is a non-issue with Macs.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks very much in advance,
Jason

"But moreso: Does repeatedly partitioning your hard drive and erasing and repartitioning do any serious long-term damage to the drive? I know with Windows that would create fragments, but I have heard that fragmentation is a non-issue with Macs."
Actually... erasing and repartitioning your hard drive (with Windows or otherwise) gets rid of any fragmentation you may have. Fragmentation is a result of the way the filesystem on the computer works. I won't go in to much detail... but for various reasons, bits and pieces of files can end up being spread all over your hard drive. When this happens, in order to read those files, your hard drive head has to skip all around to pick up the little bits instead of having them in one nice place. All that extra jumping around can add up to lots of time on a very fragmented drive. The more deleting and writing of files you do, you more fragmentation you get. So, in effect, when you partition a drive you are wiping all of the data and starting fresh. Partitioning your drive and erasing and repartitioning is basically just writing data to your drive. In fact, if you do a quick format in Windows, it doesn't even do all that much writing... it just tells the system that the data in that space can be overwritten. So... to cut an already long story short, you won't hurt your drive. You're only having it do what it will literally do billions of times in it's lifetime... just read and write.

REPartitioning my hard drive

I just partitioned my hard drive and set up one volume with winXP due to the fact that I am in arch grad school and needed the ability to run AutoCAD. I realized after i split up the drive and installed xp that i had not acocunted properly for the necessary memory. is it possibe to repartition after i have already partitioned. thank you.
MacBook Pro & G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

is it possible to repartition after i have
already partitioned. thank you.
I would simply start from scratch. Rerun the Bootcamp assistant and remove the XP partition, then rerun Bootcamp assistant and make the partition of the correct size. If you have any essential files already on the XP side of the partition simply back them up, the OSX side of partition is preserved when using Bootcamp assistant to remove XP from HD.

Bootcamp destroys my hard drive 1 GB at a time!

So, I partitioned with bootcamp to dual boot Windows, but after I felt I didnt need Windows anymore and deleted it.
750GB became 749GB
I tried repartitioning and trying again in-case it Bootcamp missed something.
749GB became 748GB.
Anyways, every repartitioning bootcamp reports one less GB.
Any fix on this?

Relax. From what I can gather here, things are normal when you take into consideration how filesystems work.
No part of the hard drive is physically destroyed in the partitioning process of any OS.
What you might be experiencing is most likely the result of volume fragmentation. No, the hard drive hasn't been smashed into hundreds of tiny shards. But its data has--sort of. As programs, including Boot Camp, write to your Mac volume, pieces of files may be scattered within free blocks, or allocation units, of the volume rather than being written in sequence. Let's say for instance that you load a Word doc located at blocks 20,000-20,007. When you read that file, it's still going to be there. Add a page or two and save it, and there are now two more blocks waiting to be written. But, some other program has already written to block 20,008. Thus, when the new blocks are written, the OS then tells Word to find the next free block, which could be 21,327--which is fine until the data is read into Word again.. When Word calls the file up, the OS sends a request to the hard drive to pick up all the blocks in that file, and then the hard drive heads move to find them. Surely, it picks up the original 8 blocks in one pass, but for the next two blocks, it either has to move the heads out or spin again to read them. The real problem occurs when this gets magnified by tens of thousands of files spread over the entire volume; if not reasonably managed, all that head movement can wear a drive out.
Mac OS has ways of dealing with this, but it doesn't defragment what really matters to Boot Camp--free space. That's why you're losing it. Boot Camp needs to find a chunk of free space big enough to hold your chosen Windows volume. If the Mac OS volume gets too fragmented, you might see this:
"Boot Camp Assistant could not create the Windows partition because some files could not be moved. Please reformat your disk using Disk Utility and run Boot Camp Assistant again."
This can be corrected with a third-party defragmenter such as iDefrag, or the tools found in more comprehensive suites like TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior. All are commercial software.
Good luck,
Nate

Upgrading MacBook Pro Hard Drive - cannot get Bootcamp partition to work

Hello,
The other day, I decided to replace my 320 GB hard drive with a 1 TB hard drive/SSD hybrid. I did a little bit of research about cloning the drive before that, and it seemed pretty straight forward to clone the OS X partition, but I wasn't really sure about cloning my Windows partition. Originally, my 320 GB hard drive had 2 partitions: 220 GB for OS X Mavericks, and 100 GB for Windows 8.1.
I bought the new drive with an external enclosure and plugged it in. The first thing I did was open Disk Utility and partitioned the new hard drive (750 GB HFS+, 250 GB NTFS). I figured I would need to partition it first and clone each partition separately. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X partition, and it worked with no problem (I immediately could restart my computer and boot with the partition on the new drive, while it was still plugged in by USB).
Next, I tried using CCC to clone the Windows partition the same way (I realize now that CCC cannot do this). 7 hours later, the cloning was complete, but there was an error that a couple files couldn't be copied. I tried copying them manually but it didn't work. I wasn't sure if the Windows partition would work, so to find out, I switched the hard drives and put the old 320 GB one in the external enclosure. I booted my computer and it booted the new OS X partition with no problem. It also mounted the Windows partition that I cloned with CCC, and I can access all of the files in it. However, when I restarted and held down "option", it would not let me boot the Windows partition.
After some googling, I realized CCC is not able to clone a bootcamp partition and make it bootable, so I opened disk utility and deleted the Windows partition (using the minus button), then recreated it (using the plus button). I downloaded Winclone (paid $30), which supposedly can clone a bootcamp partition. I opened Winclone and it seemed pretty simple: you just choose the source partition on the left, and the target on the right. I plugged in the USB enclosure with my old hard drive, and in the Winclone menu the original Windows partition popped up. I chose that as my source, and chose to copy it to the new NTFS partition on the new drive that I created. I left it on overnight, and when I woke up it said it was completed.
I now had two drives mounted: my NTFS partition that I created, and a new one that said "EFI". I have no idea what EFI is. My NTFS partition looks like it has all of the files from my original Windows partition on it; however, when I restart it does not allow me to boot with it, although I now have the option to boot EFI. When I select EFI, I am given the Windows 8.1 start up screen (with the blue Windows logo), but then an error message pops up saying something like there is an issue and it needs to restart (it restarted before I could read the whole thing).
When I boot in OS X, I only have the NTFS partition (with all my Windows files) mounted, and no EFI. When I restart, I can still boot EFI, but I always get the same message and then it restarts.
Is there any way I can fix my Windows partition so that it works the same way it did on my old drive? What is EFI? Can I delete it? How can I make the NTFS partition, which seems to have all of my files, bootable? I only want 2 partitions: one for OS X, and one for Windows. Also, can I do all of this without having to reinstall either of the operating systems?
Thanks

Hmm, that's a good question!
I headed over to the twocanoes website (the folks that make Winclone) and their guide mentions something about running Sysprep before you create the Windows image. If you skipped that step, that may be why you're having issues
http://www.twocanoes.com/support/winclone/migrating-a-bootcamp-partition-with-wi nclone/
Step 24 in that guide also mentions copying a Boot file - were you able to/did you do that?
You may have better luck over in the Bootcamp forum, which is here.
~Lyssa

I deleted my bootcamp via DU and then deleted the hard drive by using the terminal. My BOOTCAMP is still there and now my fusion drive is separated from the SSD portion and I have no idea how to fix it.

First off I have a 3tb fusion drive.
I created a 200gb bootcamp, I tried deleting the bootcamp because I thought I messed it up and googled how to delete a mac partition which told me to use Disk Utility, did that and then erased it and somehow it got locked and wouldn't let me do anything to any partition on my hard drive (everything was greyed out)
After looking up and googling for hours I found a post saying the only way to fix it would be to go into CMD+R and go into the terminal window and type out disklist and then find the first UUID number and do something along the lines of disklist delete (UUID) i forget the exact formula. I did this, and then I had 3 separate untitled hard drives.
One in the size of 1.9gb on in 800gb and one in 121.3gb (which is the SSD), I put my time machine backup onto the 1.9gb untitled and now my computer is booting slowly (because it's no longer running off of the SSD and the original bootcamp is still there.
To be honest I am absolutely confused on what else to do!
Is there anyway I can fix this?

How do I go about deleting and then re-adding the hard drives? Completely lost on how to make it back to being a 3gb fusion drive.
Thank you for all your help, I honestly really appreciate it.
I followed your instructions and got the following
diskutil list:
-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         1.9 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         251.9 GB   disk1s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s5
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.3 GB     disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System        1.3 GB     disk2s2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Untitled               *1.9 TB     disk3
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s2
                                 FD9357F1-1A71-44A0-A01E-41C84F1C8047
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Untitled               *251.5 GB   disk4
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s4
                                 31B60F49-6981-47A3-9815-6396AD3A9BD6
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *5.2 MB     disk5
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk6
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk7
/dev/disk8
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk8
/dev/disk9
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk9
/dev/disk10
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk10
/dev/disk11
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk11
/dev/disk12
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *2.1 MB     disk12
/dev/disk13
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk13
/dev/disk14
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk14
/dev/disk15
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk15
/dev/disk16
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk16
/dev/disk17
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *319.4 GB   disk17
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk17s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS IMAC TMB                319.0 GB   disk17s2
/dev/disk18
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk18
/dev/disk19
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:        CD_partition_scheme                        *804.4 MB   disk19
   1:     Apple_partition_scheme                         700.4 MB   disk19s0
   2:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk19s0s1
   3:                  Apple_HFS WD SmartWare            237.5 MB   disk19s0s2
-bash-3.2#
diskutil cs list
-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (2 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 687E889E-B4A1-4F20-8B36-43D7A3701076
|   =========================================================
|   Name:         Untitled
|   Status:       Online
|   Size:         1946162462720 B (1.9 TB)
|   Free Space:   5402624 B (5.4 MB)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 7BCD8D9C-AEB2-4D48-B248-257EFC7EA922
|   |   ----------------------------------------------------
|   |   Index:    0
|   |   Disk:     disk1s2
|   |   Status:   Online
|   |   Size:     1946162462720 B (1.9 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Logical Volume Family 3A8A9627-5963-49BA-8E2F-96DC7A1B033D
|       ----------------------------------------------------------
|       Encryption Status:       Unlocked
|       Encryption Type:         None
|       Conversion Status:       NoConversion
|       Conversion Direction:    -none-
|       Has Encrypted Extents:   No
|       Fully Secure:            No
|       Passphrase Required:     No
|       |
|       +-> Logical Volume FD9357F1-1A71-44A0-A01E-41C84F1C8047
|           ---------------------------------------------------
|           Disk:                  disk3
|           Status:                Online
|           Size (Total):          1945804734464 B (1.9 TB)
|           Conversion Progress:   -none-
|           Revertible:            No
|           LV Name:               Untitled
|           Volume Name:           Untitled
|           Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 98213AE6-9EA8-4FB7-8B72-8E08BFBFD82C
    =========================================================
    Name:         Untitled
    Status:       Online
    Size:         251864797184 B (251.9 GB)
    Free Space:   5226496 B (5.2 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 20CEF763-635D-4A0D-A107-40E8FB161D06
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk1s4
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     251864797184 B (251.9 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 2D3173B3-5B04-47E6-B331-49D1BA58E9F2
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 31B60F49-6981-47A3-9815-6396AD3A9BD6
            Disk:                  disk4
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          251507245056 B (251.5 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Untitled
            Volume Name:           Untitled
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
-bash-3.2#
Disk0
-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 235298960      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
235708600    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
236978136          7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#
Disk1
-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 3801098560      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3801508200     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3802777736        1912
3802779648   491923432      4 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
4294703080      262144      5 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
4294965224 1565567911
5860533135          32         Sec GPT table
5860533167           1         Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#

How can I restore Windows 7 to Bootcamp partition - not reformat the entire hard drive?

Hello Apple (Mac) Community,
I originally posted this question over on answers.microsoft, but no help was forthcoming. Hope someone can help me with a problem that's (almost) making me nuts! I teach graphics to college students. In brief: I run Windows 7 Pro 64 on a Mac Pro tower, along with Snow Leopard (OSX). Windows is loaded on one partition of a 1TB drive. The other partition is a Mac backup. The Mac OS is on a different drive. Everything was going swimmingly with both OS, until recently. Unfortunately, the drive with Windows showed problems and I determined that the HD was either toast or needed a total reformat. My Mac data was all backed-up. Now I wanted to backup Windows so I can easily get back to the relatively happy point of my Windows 7 experience (drivers loaded, dual monitors all working, etc.). I did some online searching and the recommendation was to create a "system image" of the existing Windows 7 install by attaching an external drive, formatting that to NTFS and selecting "backup to image" in Windows. I did that and also took the opportunity to "create a backup disc" on a DVD. (Windows recommended). Next I rebooted back to Mac OS and completely reformatted the problem 1TB disc to a single partition, zero all data, just to see if it would actually reformat. It all worked! So far, so good. Next I used Bootcamp to create two partitions, one for Windows. I then restarted using the Win7 Pro (64) install disc, reformatted the Bootcamp disk to NTFS (as required) and installed Windows 7. After all that is completed and all working, I next try to use the restore from image function while booted in Windows. I'm instructed to restart from the Win install disc, which I do. Here's where things get difficult. When I try to choose restore from image, at that point the installer asks which drives to I want to exclude... but does not show partitions, only full HDs. I do not want to reformat the entire 1TB drive. I only want Windows on the 120gb Bootcamp partition (which is already formatted for Windows BTW). I spent a lot of time online reading through articles with users having the same frustration.
So here (at long last) is my question: How can I either restore Windows just to a Bootcamp partition... using "Windows System Image" or if that can't be done... can I somehow import all of the settings, etc. from the "image" (image is on external HD) into a fresh Win 7 install? So far the "backup disc" also seems useless. I can't even boot to Windows from it. BTW Apple folks: the only response on the MS side was that some "expert" simply posted links on how to install Windows and restore... not helpful with my particular problem of restoring to a partition.
Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully some help that even a Mac user / new Windows user could understand would be better! Thanks!
-melt

WinClone 3 is OS X and saves Windows image it makes for restore - that should work but you will have to try and you would need to make a new image unless it also works with a native Windows system restore image. It is now supported and has come a long way.
http://www.twocanoes.com/
Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
Backup (though external is much safer) and you want bootable OS X clones as well as TimeMachine
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
There are a number of things to do like chkdsk and others as well as Windows DVD to do automatic system repairs and find out why.
AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
I would rearrange and redo your storage setup and how you use the 4-5 internal hard drive bays.

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Hi guys
So this is my dilemma...
I have a 13" macbook pro, I have just installed a 128GB SSD and am using that as the main boot drive and the bootcamp. I have split that hard drive in half (64gb each), one half is for OS X and the other half for Windows 7, no data is being stored on the SSD.
I have also replaced the Super drive with the original 500GB Sata drive and am wanting to use that as my Data drive. I want to partition that drive as 400GB for OS X data and 100GB Windows 7 Data (windows is only going to be used for work which wont be using too much storage.
Lets call the SSD as the OS drive and the 500GB as the Data drive...
Now i have currently formatted the Data drive in Disk Utility as MSDOS (FAT) so that both OS X and Windows can read data from it. I am not really fussed with the Mac being able to read what is on the Windows partition or vice versa but i do want to be able to store files larger than 4GB.
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I hope i have explained the situation clearly enough.
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Ash

FAT32, what Mac/OS X/Apple calls MSDOS FAT, can only store files smaller then 4GBs in size. That is the limit of FAT32. So all you need to do is format the partition you want to use for the Mac "Mac Extended (journaled)" (If you can on a MBR partition table drive, Not sure) or exFAT.
But be aware that Apple's implementation of exFAT is flawed and Windows may not be able to read a exFAT partition formatted by OS X.
Everytime I have tried to format a drive exFAT on a mac and nthen move it to a Windows computer, that is Win 7 that natively support exFAT, Windows could not read the drive.
Good Luck

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