Resizing and expanding logical HFS+ partition on Extended Parition

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I am dual booting XP Pro and OS X on my NC10. I have XP Pro installed on the main partition with a FAT32 partition for files that can be read by both OSes (see attached image for two views of the partitions).

I then installed OS X on an extended partition. Unfortunately, I had another 5GB partition also on that extended partition. I now want to delete the spare 5GB partition and non-destructively reallocate the space for the OS X partition - I want to expand it to be one big partition with my bootable OS X install still on it.

Unfortunately, I can't find any way to do this in Partition Magic. Is it possible with GParted/BootItNG/iPartition or any similar software? If so, which and how? The NC10 has no CD drive so solutions that work from OS X or XP or a bootable USB stick would be preferred.

Any advice would be highly appreciated. Cheers,

 

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Has anyone used any of the software I mentioned or sucessfully resized their OS X partition?

 

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Anyone?

 

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Right, finally solved this but it wasn't by using any partitioning tools. A combinaiton of Partition Magic, GParted and Disk Utility proved to be useless.

In the end I deleted the recovery partition to make room for a new primary partition and used CCC/SuperDuper! to clone the OS X partition across. However this didn't work and I thought it was due to CCC/SuperDuper failing. I tried to make an image but that didn't work either (I was using a FAT32 disk, doh!).

Finally, after many hours, I found out that the clones didn't work because of chain0. It cannot cope with multiple AF parititions. I had to use tboot instead which fixed things instantly.

And thus I have finally solved this by cloning and using tboot.