0dd_j0b Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Ok, so I misjudged how much space I would want for my games on my Windows partition...MS Flightsim is a hog of space. Anyone figured out how to repartition without wiping and starting all over? Obviously the bootcamp software has the ability to repartition, but I have not seen anyplace to resize. I set the windows drive to fat32 so I could write to it with OSX. Thoughts? Bootcamp is such a fantastic tool...I went back to Mac a couple years ago (after giving up on it after my Mac Classic) and the one thing that bummed me was that MS would never release FlightSim on OSX. No longer a need to worry about that and it works like a champ. Any ideas? I don't want to spend another weekend blasting the drive and setting it up all over again. TIA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15707-anyone-resized-partitions-after-dual-boot-setup-was-completed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 easiest means for you would probably be to get an external HD (50-60 bucks for 30G) and install your games on that... I don't think there is any means to resize w/o wiping the thing. I did the same thing but I do video editing (I didn't want to lose any space for OSX) so I picked up a 250G HD (formatted it to FAT32) and stored all my apps for windows on it, and the best part, I can back stuff up for OSX too... it's been a worthwhile investment for myself and hardly an inconvience Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15707-anyone-resized-partitions-after-dual-boot-setup-was-completed/#findComment-100877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranma13 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 You can only repartition, not resize. Increasing the partition size requires that all data on the drive be erased. Actually, there is a program that can do it (Partition Magic) without destroying your data but I have no idea how it works and it doesn't work with HFS+ filesystems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15707-anyone-resized-partitions-after-dual-boot-setup-was-completed/#findComment-100888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
henbjo Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Neither Acronis Disk Director or PartitionMagic have HFS+ support. What you can do is to use MacDrive to enable HFS+ support in your XP system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15707-anyone-resized-partitions-after-dual-boot-setup-was-completed/#findComment-100950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moksha Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Wouldn't it be possible to use diskutil resizeVolume on your OS X partition, and then use a partition manager in XP to add that free space or extra partition onto your XP partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15707-anyone-resized-partitions-after-dual-boot-setup-was-completed/#findComment-101039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0dd_j0b Posted April 22, 2006 Author Share Posted April 22, 2006 Neither Acronis Disk Director or PartitionMagic have HFS+ support. What you can do is to use MacDrive to enable HFS+ support in your XP system. Is MacDrive working with Bootcamp? It wasn't with the original hacked dual boot setup. Anyone tried it? Thanks for all the thoughts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15707-anyone-resized-partitions-after-dual-boot-setup-was-completed/#findComment-101121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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