15 replies to this topic

[Silver Samurai]

Just wondering if it's possible w/o formatting.
I made the XP partition a bit too small and am barely able to keep 1gb so its really starting to suck.
Anyways can I make it 1GB bigger or do I have to format?
Thanks!  

[yo-mike]

Just about anything's possible w/ DriveGenius

[bobbob]

yo-mike, on March 20th 2008, 09:57 PM, said:

Just about anything's possible w/ DriveGenius

Ouch. I think the latest Ubuntu and OpenSUSE live cds would work easily. Doesn't Bootcamp also know how to resize partitions?

[QuantaCat]

I wouldn't recommend it without backing everything important up first.

[teflon]

bootcamp doesnt resize the partitions, it scraps everything and then starts afresh. it makes sense as its done in OSX, and anything more could just break things.

if you cant resize, then I believe that winclone might be of use. itll clone a NTFS partition for you, which you can then restore after changing the partition size... I think thats how it works anyway...

[charmin]

Doesn't something in Leopard have the ability to non-destructively resize partitions, or did I imagine that?

[Silver Samurai]

Thanks guys.
I just really don't want to have to reinstall XP. lol
I was kinda dumb and only gave the XP partition 6gb. I do have an external  drive I could backup everything onto but really don't want to risk having to redo osx. I might just leave it until I get a new computer this fall...
Hackintosh or Mini... lol

[Quicksilver]

http://www.subrosaso...p;products_id=6

[charmin]

Quicksilver, on March 21st 2008, 02:41 PM, said:

http://www.subrosaso...p;products_id=6

VolumeWorks is not intended for resizing Bootcamp partitions. The use of VolumeWorks will retain all the files but will render the Windows partition unbootable

Just FYI.

[Quicksilver]

Ah, good catch.

[teflon]

the problem with trying to repartition boot camp is that Boot Camp Utility creates two new partitions each time. One of which is practically invisible, but contains the important info about partition size and allocation etc. etc. its about 200Mb in size I believe.

cos of that its pretty tricky to resize partitions.

better off to get it right the first time, or failing that be prepared to start afresh.

[Silver Samurai]

Ah well, thanks anyways. I thought 6gb would be fine, but well it's not. lol
Not the end of the world, I'll just delete some things such as OpenOffice.
Besides I can use Wordpad if I need to take notes or something.
I"ll redo a partition when I get a new Mac or Hackintosh...
decisions, decisions...

[bobbob]

teflon, on March 21st 2008, 03:06 AM, said:

bootcamp doesnt resize the partitions, it scraps everything and then starts afresh

?
It doesn't do that here:
http://www.askdaveta...d-partition.png

[teflon]

bobbob, on March 22nd 2008, 02:18 AM, said:

?
It doesn't do that here:
http://www.askdaveta...d-partition.png

sorry, poorly worded.
when you already have boot camp installed, it cant resize the partitions and has to delete the boot camp partition completely and create it afresh.

thats what i meant

[QuantaCat]

Oh and by the way, I only gave my partition 12 Gb, and it wasn't enough. So I started installing stuff to my external HD, and it works like a dream. Also, if you have stuff already installed, you can copy it over to an "easy" path on your HD, then change the registry to fit the drive letter/folders where it is. It really is that easy.

[add_smile]

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