riktor Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 I have successfully completed a dual boot of JaS 10.4.6 and Win XP. I have OSX set on on a second partition of my 160 GB IDE and Windows on my SATA RAID ARRAY. What I want to do now is some house cleaning, I wa shaving all sorts of trouble getting the daul boot working and I finally settled on a method of letting OSX partition my IDE drive for the HFS+ and leaving about 100 GB of unallocated space in front of the OSX partition. Using the XP disc I made a 10GB partition of FAT32 to boot from right at the head of the HD (Because if I went any higher XP would format NTFS and I wanted FAT32 for a swap drive). So now I have 10GB - Windows MBR (Fat32) 90GB - Unallocated Space 60GB - OSX (HFS). What I want to do is resize the 10gb partition to a 100GB partition using the OSX disk utilty. My question will this mess up the boot system, technically it will have the same amount of partitions but I want to be sure I won't jack up either install. This is my last hitch in having the Dual boot working as I planned, can anybody with a little more knowledge of OSX give me some advice? Here are my specs, Just in case; Gigabyte K8NSC - 939 nForce 3 250gb AMD 64 3200 Venice SSE3 1 Gig OCZ Performance 1x WD 160 GB 7.2k 2x WD Raptors 10k (Raid Array) Geforce 6800 Ultra Extreme AGP 256MB ViewSonic WPCI 100 (Broadcom Chip) 802.11g Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17252-post-installation-partition-adjustments/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted May 12, 2006 Author Share Posted May 12, 2006 Why does it seem like every time I ask a question here it's like talking to a wall? Can anybody help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17252-post-installation-partition-adjustments/#findComment-111792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 using disk utility it will erase all then partition accordingly. use partition magic or some sort of 3rd party partion manager to do it withoiut wiping anything important. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17252-post-installation-partition-adjustments/#findComment-111809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gymnae Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 It's not possible to resize an Mac Partition if it's on a shared Drive with Windows. DON'T EVER USER A WINDOWS TOOL TO RESIZE A WORKING MAC PARTITION. The only way known to me is that: You get a second harddrive Partition it via Diskutil to the GPT (or was it GPD) Sheme for Intel Macs Use Carbon Copy Cloner to get the Mac OS X Installation over there Copy that over to your old HDD via a Windows Tool like Partition Magic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17252-post-installation-partition-adjustments/#findComment-111838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 Thanks for the reply, I cant use partition magic it shows the drive with mac installed on it as bad drive and recommends reformatting. As far resizing the mac partition, thats not what I want to do. I am content with 60gb for OSX. What I want is to resize a FAT32 partition (which contain the XP boot info) from 10GB to 100GB. The mac partition will not get resized at all. The worry I have is if I use the Disk utilty or Gpart in Unbuntu will I mess up the dual boot? Again the disk is layed out physically now as; Part 1 WinXP 10GB Part 2 (Unallocated Space) 90GB Part 3 Mac OSX 60GB Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17252-post-installation-partition-adjustments/#findComment-111997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 Alright backed up important files and took a chance, I exteneded the FAT32 with Unbuntu Live CD It let me extend the partition to all but 375mb of space before the OSX partition. Applied and reboot everything works fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17252-post-installation-partition-adjustments/#findComment-112119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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