Resizing Boot Camp

Is there still no way to resize Boot Camp/Windows XP after a user has installed it? I need to grab about 20GB from my Boot Camp that's not being used for my Mac OS X. Is there any possible way? If I have to format...again, & again, & again... Silly right? I know I can "estimate" my storage, or use my estimate and add 10GB extra or something like that but when it all comes down to this, sooner or later, everyone is going to need to resize.

CaliforniaBeachUSA wrote:
Is there still no way to resize Boot Camp/Windows XP after a user has installed it? I need to grab about 20GB from my Boot Camp that's not being used for my Mac OS X. Is there any possible way? If I have to format...again, & again, & again... Silly right? I know I can "estimate" my storage, or use my estimate and add 10GB extra or something like that but when it all comes down to this, sooner or later, everyone is going to need to resize.
The simplest way is to clone your Windows partition using Winclone and then run BCA.app and remove the BC partition and then make a new one the proper size.
Then use the .dmg Windows image and restore your Windows system.
Winclone is an OS-X app that creates a dmg image of your Windows filesystem, making the process quite simple.
One caveat: before removing and recreating your BC partition, be sure to also backup your OS-X partiton.

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    OK so i was following this tutorial on how to increase your boot camp partition from this website.
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    As you have found out, those instructions do not work, so.
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    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.

  • 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.
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    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.

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    Ok
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    2.Can i do yet Another Partition so my macbook can have OS10/Xp/Vista in 3 seperate partitions?
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    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

  • 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.
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    For 5GB???
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    Sounds like time for hard drive swap actually.

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    I suppose someone has already addressed this topic herein, but in case someone needs help I am leaving with you what I learned.
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    ****************    Update    *****************
    From the Windows Partition using Disk Management I can see that the drive is still labeled Macintosh HD and that all of my data is there.
    I have a complete backup so i'm not worried so much about the data.
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  • Yosemite, Boot Camp, Windows 8.1 - Resizing Partition Guide

    Hey everyone, I had some success with this so I thought I would share:
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    ashtastic wrote:
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    Nhammake wrote:
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    Hi, Ralph,
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  • Resizing partitions in Boot Camp

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    Ok - I see. It's not as easy as I hoped for. And the thing is, that I fortunately haven't installed a lot of programs yet. So I think that I'll rather start over from the beginning... But thanks to the both of you. I got the answer that I needed ;o). Best regards from Ditte

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    Oops, my bad!
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       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
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       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            319.2 GB   disk0s2
       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
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    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
          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  623531456      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      623941096    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
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    I am trying to install Windows 7 via Boot Camp. I get an error message when trying to create the partitions. It says: "The disc 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."
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    Chris Thielen wrote:
    I have had problems getting boot camp to partition my drive, reporting that
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