can i increase my windows partition without reinstalling windows?

bimmerboii · 28 May 2008 at 17:11

I have installed vista using bootcamp and now im seeing that i need more/bigger disk space for windows. I use 60GB for my windows partition, and I wish to increase it to another 40GB. Is it possible to do this or do i need to reinstall windows through bootcamp again?

randal · 28 May 2008 at 17:16

GPartED should do the trick.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

bimmerboii · 28 May 2008 at 17:20

great! gona try it now.

cheers

bimmerboii · 28 May 2008 at 17:25

ok after reading the install instructions im already lost. randal24, have you tried this before? can you help me with this?

Deleted member 651465 · 28 May 2008 at 18:21

Just open the Boot Camp utility in OS X and slide the slider to the right to make the partition bigger?

bimmerboii · 28 May 2008 at 18:29

it doesnt work cos once you have windows installed you will only have the option to remove it

Deleted member 651465 · 28 May 2008 at 20:37

What about booting off the OS X install DVD?

Doug · 29 May 2008 at 00:48

Image the drive, remove the windows partition, make larger windows partition, restore image of drive.

bimmerboii · 29 May 2008 at 16:24

EVH said:
What about booting off the OS X install DVD?

Tried and did not work

Doug said:
Image the drive, remove the windows partition, make larger windows partition, restore image of drive.

I have no idea what image is! arrgh.. thanks for the help guys but looks like i need to reinstall windows again in bootcamp :mad:

Doug · 30 May 2008 at 18:30

Fire up Disk Utility, select the windows partition and click on new image and save it onto your external drive.

Fire up Boot Camp Assistant, remove the windows partition. Open it again and make the partition the size you need.

Go back into Disk utility, select "restore" put the dmg (the drive image) you created earlier as the source and drag the windows partition into the destination. Hit restore and in a few minutes you should be good to go.

Sic · 31 May 2008 at 10:58

Doug, that's a brilliant idea. I wish you'd posted that a month ago!

bimmerboii · 31 May 2008 at 16:25

thanks doug, but i saw your post an hour too late. already did a fresh install of vista again. hope your method can be put into sticky!

Doug · 1 Jun 2008 at 13:14

OK, my plan's a no-go using Disk Utility, just tried it. If I leave the partition as fat32 the restore fails, if I format to NTFS Disk Utility can't write to it.

I'm going to try it with SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner, hopefully they'll be able to handle it.

[edit] WinClone looks like it's designed to do exactly what I want.

rp2000 · 2 Jun 2008 at 09:23

Doug said:
OK, my plan's a no-go using Disk Utility, just tried it. If I leave the partition as fat32 the restore fails, if I format to NTFS Disk Utility can't write to it.

I'm going to try it with SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner, hopefully they'll be able to handle it.

[edit] WinClone looks like it's designed to do exactly what I want.

Ahhhhhhh!!

I was suspended earlier but was going to suggest WinClone!!

Boot into OS X, use Winclone to take an image of your Bootcamp partition. Use Bootcamp assistant to zap it and create a new larger one by doing a partial through a windows install (upto where you pik file system and format disk) and then in Mac OS X use Winclone to restore into the new partition.

Works just like Norton Ghost really (for those who image in the Windows world).

rp2000

Doug · 3 Jun 2008 at 00:30

Exactly the plan, rp. Shame I didn't find WinClone earlier, as it would do nothing with the image I made in Disk Utility.

Auch well, I'll be installing windows for the fifth time in as many weeks

(I'll make a WinClone back up when I'm done this time

can i increase my windows partition without reinstalling windows?

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