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spaceboots06

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Jun 13, 2009
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Is it possible to allocate more hard drive space to the windows side of the partition without having to reformat?

Thanks.

EDIT: Does this mean anything?

If it's an intel Mac, you can use diskutil in Terminal as long as the harddrive's partitioned in GPT (should be, I guess).
 

taeclee99

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Jun 4, 2002
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Use winclone to make a image backup of your bootcamp volume.
Resize your bootcamp volume using bootcamp assistant.
Restore your image to new boot camp partition using winclone.
 

spaceboots06

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Jun 13, 2009
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The Rotten Apple
Use winclone to make a image backup of your bootcamp volume.
Resize your bootcamp volume using bootcamp assistant.
Restore your image to new boot camp partition using winclone.

I searched the forum and came across what you just wrote. Do you have an estimate on how long it would take?
 

crazyxzer0

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Oct 28, 2008
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I searched the forum and came across what you just wrote. Do you have an estimate on how long it would take?

cloning takes a few hours if your disc is large. Then copying it back takes awhile too. I would say at least 3-4hours per copying image.
 

taeclee99

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It is fairly quick to image using winclone. But it really depends on how big your windows partition is. My 30 gig partition about ten minutes to create an image.
 

vertigo78

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Oct 2, 2008
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create another partition using fat32. you'll be able to see it on both partitions. i would recommend backing up though. i once tried to do a third partition to install snow leopard and it ended up messing up my windows partition. it could have been something else i did because when i created a fat32 partition for this exact purpose my windows partition remained intact.
 
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