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November 27th, 2006, 07:38 AM
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 BootCamp - how to repartition hard drive? .. please help! Hi .. I have a quick question. I use Boot Camp on my Macbook Pro to use Windows XP. I've recently discovered Parallels, and was looking to transfer all my stuff into Parallels in the Mac's OS. Unfortunately, I had partitioned my drive to use 50 GBs for the Boot Camp partition. And now need to reduce it down, so I can add back more space to my MAC OS partition. Is there a non-destructive way of doing this, where I don't have to delete the BootCamp partition? After reading forums and some online help .. I'm really confused because there are some people who are saying that it is possible to use a program like Partition Magic .. and some people who say that it's not possible .. my MAC OS drive is in FAT 32 .. and my BootCamp drive is in NTFS. Having to delete the boot camp partition and making another one will just be really REALLY inconvenient for me. Please help! Bilal Ahmed bil.ahm@gmail.com  |
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November 27th, 2006, 08:55 AM
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| Your Mac OS X drive is not in the FAT32 format -- Mac OS X cannot reside on a FAT32-formatted volume. More than likely you meant HFS+ (Mac OS Extended [Journaled]), right? Try a program called "iPartition", available from versiontracker.com. It may help you to reclaim your partition, although I would always suggest repartitioning/reformatting and reinstalling over using a partition map juggler program.
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November 27th, 2006, 10:55 AM
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| yes, probably the HFS+ (Journaled) thing .. sorry, not too mac savvy yet .. just switched over from PC, a couple of months ago .. though not completely yet .. would be able to .. except have issues networking to a samsung laser printer at work .. but that's another long story! I am going to try iPartition .. and see if it can do it .. otherwise, I would obviously have to reparition/reformat/reinstall .. it's just that, that would be such a huge pain .. and would take me at least a day to back up everything .. it would just be great if I could keep all the data in the partition intact .. so will try iPartition and let you know how it goes .. fingers crossed! |
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November 27th, 2006, 12:59 PM
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| update: couldn't figure out anything with iPartition! .. installed it .. but it doesn't let me do anything .. I've bought it, so it's not like it's in its "trial" mode .. will try Norton Ghost .. |
