Resized Boot Camp partition; now I have "disk0s4"

OK so i was following this tutorial on how to increase your boot camp partition from this website.
Following this blog post:
http://blog.craigharvey.me/2012/09/02/resize-boot-camp-partition-for-free-window s-8/
I resized my Boot Camp partition to give Windows 7 more space. In Disk Utility on OS X ML, I reduced the size of my OS X partition. So then i clicked apply and now that partition says disk0s4. I tried to verfiy and repair it through disk utitlity but It wont let me as there are problems. I have reiszed my parition before and never had this problem before. What did I do wrong and will I be able to fix it?

As you have found out, those instructions do not work, so.
If you can you still boot to OSX, you can Use Boot Camp to remove the Windows partition and return the Mac to normal, then start agin.
Next time you need to resize an NTFS partition use Paragon Camp Tune, which can do it without borking things.
Do Not Ever use Disk Utility to do anything to a Windows partition, it will make the problem worse.

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Windows disc does not update after resizing boot camp partition

When I bought my iMac, it came with a 500 GB HDD. I used bootcamp to make a 200GB windows partition and a 300GB Mac partition. The other day I bought a 250GB SSD, and moved everything from my 300GB Mac partition onto the SSD.
My plan was to use the whole 500GB HDD for windows. So, I deleted the 300GB Mac partition and made it free space on the drive. I then expanded the boot camp partition to take up the whole drive using Mini Tool on windows 7.
Now, windows 7 shows that my drive is 465GB, but when I boot into mac, the bootcamp hard drive still reads 200GB and 300GB are "free space" even though I expanded the drive using Mini Tool.
I tried to fix this by filling up the hard drive with an extra 120 GB so it exceeded the 200GB limit that windows shows. But when I booted back into OSX to see if it had worked, none of the files were showing up in the drive, making me believe that boot camp and OS X are not reading changes I am making to the bootcamp drive when I use Windows.
How can I change this so Disk Utility shows the full size of the disc, like Mini Tool does?
I will try to upload screenshots soon.

Re-sizing Windows partitions is not supported on Bootcamp. It requires a clean install. The other option is using Winclone.
Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions
How can a Windows partition be resized after Windows is installed?
You need to delete the Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant, and start over to change the size of the Windows partition. Back up your important Windows files first.

Resizing Boot Camp Partition

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.

Can i resize Boot Camp Partition,what about a second partitiion?

Ok
i had 40 GB left on my macbook
i boot camped a new Partition at 10 GB and put Windows XP SP2 on it
i got 2 new questions
1.Can i change the 10GB to 20 GB and if so HOW
2.Can i do yet Another Partition so my macbook can have OS10/Xp/Vista in 3 seperate partitions?
what about Linux
is there a way to open Both Partitions at the same time to view OS10 and XP side by side on the same computer ?
thanks in advance

Sounds like you didn't plan enough space. Not w/o destroying (backup) your current partitioning to install each natively.
Maybe Parallels would fit your needs.
http://forums.parallels.com
Triple boot
http://macapper.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134

Cancelled Boot Camp Partition, Now Disk Capacity Reduced

Hi, i was partitioning my MacBook Air to install windows 7, but after an hour it just froze, so I force quit Boot Camp and the space was gone. I tried the SL/Lion solution and the space is still GONE! What can I do to recover it? Disk Utility won't work :C

I call it nuked and only a slim chance of retrieve or survival, so my vote is to use the backup you made and go ahead and erase the drive and restore it to how it was, or clone your Mac volume and boot from there and restore, maybe even zero the drive to help check for disk errors.
If you need help cloning, Disk utility Restore or Carbon Copy Cloner can do the trick.

Late 2013 MBP/Fusion/Boot Camp partition w/Windows XP (!), can I get Bluetooth working or should I give up?

Hello and please bear with the length of this post. I had an old MacBook Pro (2007 Santa Rosa) that ran Windows XP in a Boot Camp partition just fine. One thing Windows has that the Mac doesn't is a free OBD2 app that lets me communicate with a Bluetooth OBD2 scanner to reset my check engine light and read the codes. This scanner uses Bluetooth.
A few months ago by a stroke of good luck I got a new Retina MacBook Pro. Windows XP will not install on it, only Win 7 & 8 (I don't have the install disks anymore anyway). I did not want to buy a new Windows just to run this one program (the only Windows app I really need). I thought I could possibly run my old Win XP Boot Camp partition (now in an external USB3 case) under Fusion, and it turns out that I can indeed do this. However I can not get Bluetooth to work – Win XP, under Fusion, does not see any Bluetooth hardware. I got some help on the Fusion forum – I was told to uncheck the Share Bluetooth devices with the virtual machine box and check the Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller box to connect Bluetooth to the virtual machine. WIn XP, under Fusion, does not seem to see any Bluetooth hardware.
My question is, do the Boot Camp drivers originally installed when I first used Win XP on my old Santa Rosa MBP have any role here? I was thinking I might have to update those drivers since I'm on a new Retina MBP, but the update notes specifically say the newer drivers are for Windows 7 and 8. I haven't tried to install them yet – maybe they'll even refuse to install, I don't know.
If I'm truly wasting my time trying to get this to work I'll fork over the $40 for the Mac OBD2 software, although I really only need it for a "single use" (trying to pass a state inspection, lol!). TIA for any help!

Please ignore the last message - I was hoping I could delete the thread but it looks like I can't.
After a little more investigation I've decided to give up this quest and pay the $40 for the Mac software.

What will happen with my Boot Camp partition if I'll do a celan install of Mac OS X Lion?

I'm planing to do a clean install of Lion (form USB drive). Will my Boot Camp partition (where I have Windows 7 installed) stay untouched?

You can clone the Bootcamp partition from within OS X using the free WinClone.
http://download.cnet.com/Winclone/3000-2242_4-11089354.html
You can also clone your Snow Leopard to another drive (needs a whole one to itself/partition) using the free Carbon Copy Cloner.

I erased my windows partition using disk utility then realized I should have used boot camp, because now I can't resize the original partition and seem to be stuck with a ghost unusable space. Boot Camp now doesn't give me the option to install or re

I erased my windows partition using disk utility then realized I should have used boot camp, because now I can't resize the original partition and seem to be stuck with a ghost unusable space. Boot Camp now doesn't give me the option to install or remove windows partition.

Hi, Ralph,
The problem is that I did erase the partition, using disk utility, but I can't go back to my original disk size pre-partition, as disk utility won't let me do it and gives the message "Couldn’t modify partition map because file system verification failed." When I try to use Boot Camp Assistant it won't let me select the third option to remove windows.

I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?

I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?
I have tried bootcamp and have had no luck due to the fact that boot camp doesn't see the additional HDD space of 250Gb. What am I not doing?

Ouch, well there is a problem.
This is the stack of partitions on your old drive
EFI (hidden)
Lion (50GB say)
Bootcamp (50GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
This is the same stack on your new drive imaged from the old one.
EFI (hidden)
Lion (50GB say)
Bootcamp (50GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
Emtpy Space (100GB say)
This is what you want
EFI (hidden)
Lion (100GB say)
Bootcamp (100GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
EFI has to be at the top of the drive and Lion Recovery has to be at the bottom of the drive.
And you only have four partitions.
You can't move the Lion Recovery Partition or Bootcamp partiton, however you can expand the Lion Partition into empty space below it. (but can't delete or move the Lion Recovery partition)
Your Duplicator duplicated perfectly, too perfectly Likely would work with same sized drives/partitions.
This is what your going to need to do.
You need to move the Bootcamp partition to a blank external drive using WinClone and disconnect. This is so you have two backups of it. (one on your old 500GB drive)
You will need a drive enclousre or IDE/SATA to USB adapter cable for the older 500GB drive and option key boot from it. (some enclosures can't be booted from so check first Other World Computing is good place to ask)
Download the free Carbon Copy Cloner, grab any new files off the new 750GB internal drive to the old 500GB your booted from.
Open Apple's Disk Utility and Erase with Zero option the entire internal 750GB drive and let it rip, this will map off as many bad sectors and improve reliability.
Now use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the 500GB Lion + Lion Recovery Partitions to the internal 750GB, it will "fix" things and place Lion Recovery at the bottom of the drive where it belongs, give all the extra space to OS X Lion.
Next your going to have to follow WinClones instructions to restore your Bootcamp, likely you will have to recreate the Bootcamp partition first (in Bootcamp) to the size you want and then clone. Likely Winclone may "fix" Windows to recognize it's in a new larger partition now. I don't know you'll have to check as I haven't used it.
When Bootcamp creates the partition it will place it near the bottom next to the Lion Recovery Partition.
As you know you will have to re-validate Windows with Lord Redmond or it expires as you changed the hardware.

Removing Boot Camp Partition after now using Parallels

Is it possible to completely remove the boot camp partition (under Snow Leopard) without having to reformat the HD and reinstall everything? I don't need it now that I am using Parallels with an XP virtual machine installed on my OSX partition.

utahmac1 wrote:
I ran the assistant and did the restore. Now when my computer turns on I have to hold the option key to get to the mac log in. There isn't the windows boot up option any more. However it wont just boot up to Mac. Any ideas?
Once in OS X go to System Preferences - Startup Volume and set OSX to be the default.
On the next reboot ist should automatically boot into OSX.
Regards
Stefan

I was partitioning my HD to allocate free space to give to my windows partition in Boot Camp. Now I cant access my windows partition at all. Please help.

I was partitioning my HD to allocate free space to give to my windows partition in Boot Camp. Now I cant access my windows partition at all. Please help

TTBOMK the only way you can increase the Windows partition is to repartition the drive back to a single partition
Then reinstall Mountain Lion
Restore all data from backup
Create new larger partition with Boot Camp
Install Windows
Restore data from backup
Allan

I deleted my Boot Camp partition with Disk Utility and now I cannot reclaim the freespace?

I deleted my Boot Camp partition with Disk Utility and now I cannot reclaim the freespace?
And when I try to add a partition to the free space, and try to apply I do this:
I press apply and it does its thing for like a second, I switch tabs and I get this:
No matter how many times I reboot it doesn't work. Please help

diskutil list:
diskutil mergePartitions:

Parallels can now run your boot camp partition!

Having seen this question many times in this forum, I thought I'd let people know that the new beta of parallels can boot from your existing boot camp partition. It also has a few other features with some major cool factor. Check it out here.
MacBook Pro - 2.0 GHz - 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

unforunately it won't work if your bootcamp partition is fat32, however they said it will be fixed in the next release!

Copying a disk which has a boot camp partition

Colleague has an iMac with a boot camp partition, and the disk has failed. It won't boot off the mac partition, although the windows partition works fine. He bought a new 1T disk and we are trying to copy his disk on to it, and will then install the new disk into the iMac.
So it's booted up using the SnowLeopard install disk and I am running disk utility. First I tried to partition the disk into something that looks like the partition scheme on the current disk -- big partition for os x, little partition for windows, although big & little are 750GB vs 250GB as opposed to the smaller version on the 260GB original.
Then I tried to use the Restore to go from the old bootcamp partition to the new MS-DOS (fat) partition on the new drive. This failed. First it resized the fat partition down to an ever-so-slightly smaller partition than the NTFS original, and then generated an error because the partition is too small.
How do we do this?

Loner T wrote:
1. Do you have a TM backup of the OSX which came from this "failed" disk? It may just be a matter of reinstalling OSX too work around bacd blocks?
My boss tried that about a year ago, but it failed again after not too long.
2. What is the failure when switching to OSX from Windows?
Not sure. Now when I option-boot the machine I can't see either partition -- I can see the installer dvd and the new drive in its external enclosure.
3. Windows can be installed only on the internal disk, which is a Windows restriction that BC enforces. Apple allows OS to installed on external drives. Ask Gates/Ballmer/Nadella why?
4. Yes, you can get data of the disk, not matter how it is connected, internal or external. It is tricky to take a Volume and move it. Can I suggest an investment in Winclone to backup and restore (http://www.twocanoes.com/products/mac/winclone) Windows?
5. Yes, but I would recommend putting Bootcamp Windows back as BC/Windows, rather than virtualizing it using Parallels.
Well moving the new disk in to the iMac is one of the tasks we need to accomplish, so we can do it now. My plan was to use dd to move the data from the partition on the old drive to the partition on the new drive, once we can get Boot Camp Assistant to create it. Winclone looks like a great product, but it's $29. Parallels is only $79, and if a disk fails or you migrate to new hardware all of the Parallels vms come over effortlessly using Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant.

Boot Camp Partition too small

I created a boot camp partition for Windows 7 a few months ago, but I didn't make it big enough. Now I'm getting a "not enough space" message when I try to update to boot camp 3.2. I seem to remember that if I need to resize, I need to reinstall boot camp again - is that right, because I can't find where I read that?
I have a 2010 Macbook pro, 2.66 gHz, and my 32-bit windows partition was installed as 18 gb. I didn't think about having to run other software, like itunes, when I created the partition.
I've not been able to change the trackpad such that I can tap rather than click (VERY difficult for me to work with), and I was hoping boot camp 3.2 might fix that.
Any advice on all this would be gratefully received.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Toocool4.
Hatter, I always search for solutions before I ask - I come to forums as a last resort when I'm not confident about proceeding without some advice. If you don't like the questions I ask, you don't have to get involved and answer. I didn't ask anything about doing backups - I backup my data regularly to an external drive. I asked what "backup system image" meant because I hadn't heard that expression before and I thought it might have been something critical I needed to know before I reinstalled my partition.
Before I moved over to Mac, I spent 9 years learning how to maintain my own pc, so I've got some idea of what I'm doing. But there are always things to learn, and I'm grateful to those who are willing to share their knowledge - I've used what I've learned to help those of my friends who are real novices, and at times I've even contributed to forums.
Since I only use my Windows partition for music, I think it'll be simple enough for me to just recreate. The 15-20 percent rule sounds like a good one, Toocool4, and I wish I'd thought of it before! This time I'll build a partition factoring in the size of software, like itunes, as well, and I'll make it big enough to cover everything!
If I've misunderstood the image-creating ideas, please set me straight; otherwise I'll assume just going thru the bootcamp instructions will serve me well again.
And BTW, I'm a GIRL, not a guy.

Resized Boot Camp partition; now I have "disk0s4"

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