Resizing Bootcamp Partition with Camptune

Please advise if you have any feedback -- positive or otherwise -- regarding the use of Paragon's Camptune X to resize bootcamp partitions. There are surprisingly few reviews about the product, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

I recommend it as #1 choice and has been around for years.
One person said it took hours.
Google turns up people with trouble but they also created trouble and had it to begin with.
Backup first.
Make sure your hard drive is ready and has healthy partitions to begin with.
That you have more than adequate space for both operating systems.
that means more than just 30GB for Windows as well as free space for Mac - 20% free after to operate afterwards for each.
The Paragon forums are not that much help that I have seen - rather quiet but I use their other products daily.
If you must, feel free and safe - but make sure to have backups!
And in the last months there is $20 WinClone 3 that I don't know about but has expanded its features and supported.

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2 bootcamp partitions with the same win 7 software?

I'm running Lion 10.7.2 on a Mac Pro 4,1 (early 2009).
So my bootcamp partition with Windows 7 works fine, but I am running out of disk space. I'd like to move it to a dedicated drive that's already installed. I tried to image the partition with Winclone, but I was not able to restore the image to this other drive with Winclone (latest version that is supposed to be compatible with Lion, ver 2.3.2?).
It seems, I need to start over and reinstall bootcamp/win 7 onto my other drive. But, I don't want to simply erase my original bootcamp partion before I do that. Will I be able to use bootcamp assistant to install the same Windows 7 software onto a new bootcamp drive, while still keeping the original bootcamp/win 7 partition?
thanks

{{Still, it's too bad I still have to nuke my working bootcamp partition??before I do any of this. Maybe if I unmount the partition is disk utility?}} You have to make image before nuke.
A windows image backup is not bootable, it is a very long string of data = to your C: drive GBs.
After doing image from within Windows 7 to Internal "Work" disk, in Windows 7 Bootcamp control panel, change startup to OSX. You reboot into OSX & I thought you could run bootcamp against existing Windows 7 reducing it to 0. Reboot to OSX & do bootcamp space allocation setup to "New" disk, then Bootcamp would ask for Windows CD/DVD; rebooting with F8 where Windows Recovery/Restore/Advanced WhatchaMaCallit image from Work could be restored to "New" bootcamped disk exactly as it was before you zeroed it.
You want to press F8 because it will otherwise go into Windows install where I can't remember but do not think it will let you do image restore.
I expect even if you have problems after allocating new, you can boot with Option key selecting Windows 7 CD/DVD and F8.
This would not take long on internal drives.

Has anyone made a successful image of their Bootcamp partition with Lion?

An earlier thread has discussed making a Bootcamp partition image but it appears that no one has actually done it with Win 7 and Lion. https://discussions.apple.com/message/16064648#16064648 This thread mentions the use of Clonezilla and Paragon software as possibilities but has anyone done it? I know my Paragon "Rescue Disk" software no longer works with Lion and Bootcamp (free and has been in beta for years). Winclone is an "end of life" software option but will it work? Maybe this thread (if it become one) might help create a list of workable options. My experience shows Paragon's "Rescue Disk" is not working and Clonezilla needs a working example and a "how to".

Hi GeekBoy.from.Illinois,
I'm trying to use create a clonezilla usb key to use with my new MB Pro + Lion 10.7.2...
I have another key that I use for cloning the disk of my mac mini, but it doesn't work.
I tried creating a new key, but it doesn't show up as an option when I reboot and keep the alt/option
key pressed...
I've used the following steps and two or three different iso images from Clonezilla and nothing seems to work.
I did notice on diskutil that after formating the USB key with one HFS+ partition (a GPT version table)
and then do the dd command to copy over the .dmg/.iso image of the clonezilla cd
I get some weird "unformatted" partition table format at the bottom of the disk utility window...
but this is also reported as unrecognized/"unformatted" for the working USB (the one that works
fine with mac-mini)...
Here are the steps I followed.
http://superuser.com/questions/63654/how-do-i-burn-an-iso-on-a-usb-drive-on-mac- os-x/226148#226148
any ideas about what procedure to follow to create a working USB key for my new MB Pro?
Thanks very much,
A.

Deleted and resized bootcamp partition. How can I get my files back?!?!?

So I used a Windows partition for months and decided to switch back to Mac.
I backed up most of my files and then deleted the partition with the Mac Boot Camp Assistant. Then resized it back to 500gb.
I soon realized that there are some very important files which I forgot to backup off the windows partition.
I REALLY need these files back, please tell me there is SOME WAY I can recover those files.
PLEASE HELP!

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Backup my bootcamp partition with time machine ?

I have read a few discussion about this subject here in Apple Support Communities but none of them was really new.
I read that it is not possible to backup my bootcamp partition by using time machine. Does anyone has any up to date ideas on how to make this work in the best possible way ? I am on os x 10.8.4 and I use bootcamp with windows 7. I want to abe able to backup all my osx data, all my bootcamp data + an external hard drive data that I use for my windows files.
Alltogether in one hd.
Thanks in advance.

Look at CopyCatX to do a whole drive backup. If you want to include an external hdd then get a large external drive and make two partitions, one for the Mac including Boot Camp backup and one for the external hdd backup.
http://subrosasoft.com/software/copycatx

Wrongly deleted bootcamp partition with discutility

I wrongly deleted the bootcamp/windows by diskutility. Now I cant get rid of the partition. I know I should have done it with bootcamp. Is there a way to do it now, after the incorect procedure??
OS X 10.10 Windows 7 Time Machine backup

Can you post the output of
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Sudo commands require your password, which is not echoed back to you. You may also see a warning about improper use, and potential data loss, if abused.

Resize BootCamp Partition in active Windows Environment

How can I extend (resize) my active Windows partition to gaining size from OS X partition? Windows 64 GB- OS X 165 GB
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By using Paragon CampTune.
Backup your machine before you do this.

Slow download speeds only on Bootcamp partition with Time Capsule

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Did you ever find a fix for this problem? It's something I've been living with for months.

Resizing Bootcamp partition

Hi
i want to give space from windows partition to mac partioion
what is the software i'll use and how
P.S.. last time i tried to do this i lost all my data "disk formatted''

The Boot Camp guides are located here: https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
The Boot Camp discussion community is located here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Resize bootcamp partition?

I've hosed myself and not left enough room to install everything on the xp partition that I need. Can I resize this without reinstalling windows?
THanks,
Jeff

No. But you can backup Windows for later restore after you reformat your hard drive, or swap out for larger drive.
WinClone: http://www.twocanoes.com or any Windows backup program. WinClone works within OS X but you'll want another hard drive, and you will want a backup or clone of OS X as well.
If you think you need X, always double it.

I was trying to resize my bootcamp partition and it got deleted now I have 217 GB of free space that I cant use and I want to rejoin it with my macbook partiton.

So I was trying to resize my bootcamp partition with Paragon and it was taking forever so I decided to use iPartition the Paragon started doing something and it was almost done when my macbook began to shut down. It was shutting down becuase I though the paragon wouldnt work. Anyway it shut down and I wasnt able to boot to the iPartition CD, so I decided to just screw it and just stick with Mac osx. Then while in the iPartition app once I booted up back into OSX it said I had 217 gigs of free space and my hardrive/mac os partition can only use like 270 gigs. But I desparetely need these 215 gigs back becuase I do things that require alot of memory. Does anybody have any idea how I can rejoin this free space with my mac partition. I already tried it in disk utility and it kept failing with a couldnt unmount disk error everytime I tried to resize back to its full size! PLEASE HELP! Heres a pic of what iPartiton shows me.

You need an external disk that is formated as HFS+ with a GUID partition map.
You can use either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to create the clone.
Once ypu have the clone you can boot from my holding down the option key ater power on.
Once booted from the clone open Disk Utility.
Select the internal drive.
Click partition.
Select single partition.
Once drive has bee formated, restore the clone nack with the application used to make the original clone.
Boot from internal drive.
Allan

Upgrading hard drive with bootcamp partition

On my MacBook i've got a Lion partition and a Bootcamp partition with the Windows 8 Consumer preview. Would it be possible to copy the partitions from my current drive to a bigger drive and extend each the partitions to make use of the extra space? I would rather not have to reinstall both Lion and Windows as I've got all the apps and settings i like on Lion and getting an OpenGL graphics driver to work (so i could play Minecraft) and installing VB6 was a huge hassle.

You can clone both the Mac and the Boot Camp Partitions separately to external drives then back clone to the new drive after installation. Be sure to clone the Mac Partition with Carbon Copy Cloner which can copy the lion recovery partition also. After having the clone of the Mac installed then set up anew Boot Camp partition but don't install any Windows OS. Clone the original Boot Camp partition with Winclone or Paragon HDM 12 themn back clone this to the newly creaed BootCamp partition.
You might want to scan the Boot Camp section of these forums for comments on this process.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Can I use Windows 7 upgrade disk with my empty bootcamp partition?

In upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion, I had to get rid of my Bootcamp partition running Windows XP in order for the Lion install to work successfully. I can run bootcamp and put in a new partition now.
I originaly backed up my Bootcamp partition with Winclone. It turns out that it's not really possible to restore a Windows XP partition under Lion.
No big loss. I don't have any real data of importance on that saved XP data.
However, I really need to install Windows 7.
The UPGRADE version is lower in cost.
But with NO WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM residing in my Bootcamp partition, can I use the "UPGRADE" version of Windows 7? I do have a numeric product key for Windows XP.
Alternatively, for $199 I can buy the full install version.
Thanks

Stef,
Here's a way to use Winclone. Run Snow Leopard and Lion both, on your machine. Install Winclone to the Snow leopard partition. It will work. I've done this same thing on my MBP. Lion will run well if installed clean on a separate partition. Once SL is up and Winclone is installed, you can image the Boot Camp drive easily, just as before. You can do the Windows restore via Winclone before or after the install of Lion - as long as the Boot Camp partition is set up. You can also restore it the same way. So, you have SL installed as a way to run old PPC programs and Winclone, etc. I don't know if it matters, but this is the order I installed (I tested this out on a new hard drive before touching my existing drive):
1) Snow Leopard
2) Boot Camp
3) Lion
I ope this helps you as well as it did me.
Jonathan
MBP 13, 2.3, 8 GB, 500 GB

Bootcamp partition shows up as grey "disk0s4" in Disk Utility

Hello everyone,
So I am a few days into this tiring and discouraging process of trying to get my iMac back to it's original working state. Here's to hoping for a solution:
Ever since I bought my iMac, I've been running OSX Mountain Lion with Win7 installed through BootCamp, without any problems. I recently wanted to increase my Boot Camp partition size from 80GB to 149GB because I was running low on disk space, and that was the start of many problems to come.
Here's what I tried first:
Make a backup copy of my OSX partition through Disk Utility's "Restore" tab (onto external HD 1)
Make a backup copy of my Windows partition through "Create a system image" in Windows Control Panel (onto external HD 2)
Use WinClone to backup a copy of my Windows partition
Erase Boot Camp partition in Disk Utility
Resize Mac OS partition to max
Create new FAT partition (149 GB)
Restore WinClone backup to the FAT partition (hoping it'll "fill up" the remaining free space)
I don't remember all the details, but all of this led to Windows not being able to boot properly, and then soon after, OS X wouldn't work either. The built-in Recovery HD somehow became unusable and showed up as grey in Disk Utility (too chaotic to remember how). After much trial and error, I was left with the Mac's built in Internet Recovery option, which I used to reinstall OS X Mountain Lion (on top of the existing Mac partition). Afterward, I regained the Recovery HD, and resized the Mac OS X partition to cover over the unusable free space that remained.
After that:
Ran Boot Camp Assistant to start the Windows installation process from scratch.
After the installation finished, I used "System Image Recovery" from a bootable Windows Recovery USB that I created.
Upon restart, Windows would not boot (which was fixed using the bootrec commands within Command Prompt off the USB).
This allowed Windows to boot fine, and it was exactly as it was before this all began.
Now, here are my current problems.
I believe the simplest way to achieve my original goal of extending my Windows partition would be to use Paragon's Camptune X, but upon running it, it tells me it can't find any Bootcamp configuration on my system.
While both OSX and Windows appear on the Startup Manager when I hold down the "option" key (which boot and run just fine), the "BOOTCAMP" partition that I would normally see in Disk Utility (under Macintosh HD) is now listed as "disk0s4", is grey, and "unmounted". It's also listed as MS-DOS (FAT), while it shows up as NTFS within Windows.
The Startup Disk preference pane lists Macintosh HD as the only choice.
I'm exhausted from the past week of repeated backup/reinstallations and trying to make this work. I've done my share of research and reading related forum threads, with no real solution. I am hoping "The hatter" will see this, as he's offered much info/advice on this topic on these boards, but I still haven't been able to resolve this issue.
Thanks for reading, anyone have any ideas?

By using Disk Utility to try to resize your Bootcamp partition you messed up your hard disk. You need to backup all your data from the disk, eraze and format your disk, and reinstall OSx, then if you want a new Bootcamp partition run Bootcamp Assistant.
Next time you want to resize the Bootcamp partition use CampTune, not Disk Utility.

Bootcamp partition won't load on startup after Yosemite upgrade

Hi!
I have a similar problem like others before, but I tried to fix it like described but it didn't work.
Here's my output:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            199.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         20.2 GB    disk0s4
diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 488397167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 389244168      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
389653808    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
390923344   58022832
448946176   39450624      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
488396800        335
488397135         32         Sec GPT table
488397167          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127 14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 389244168] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 389653808 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
testdisk
Disk /dev/disk0 - 250 GB / 232 GiB - 488397168 sectors (RO)
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
1 P EFI System                    40     409639     409600 [EFI system partitio
2 P Mac HFS                   409640 389653807 389244168 [Customer]
3 P Mac Boot               389653808 390923343    1269536 [Recovery HD]
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
4 P MS Data                448946176 488396799   39450624 [Microsoft basic dat
4 P MS Data                448946176 488396799   39450624 [Microsoft basic dat
a]

You have been bit by the Yosemite/Windows resizing bug.
390923344   58022832
448946176   39450624      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
Have you used any tools to resize your Windows partition at any time prior to the Yosemite upgrade?
Here is a reference thread that you can follow - Missing Bootcamp Partition (with pastes!).
You are in Testdisk Quick Search, you will need to run Deeper Search to find your lost 'NTFS' partition.

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