muitommy Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 My previous osx86 partition is 20GB, right after the partition of XP , i wanna resize the osx86 partition to a bigger size, i have another hardisk, and i wanna move both xp and osx86 partition to a new disk, how can i accomplish this easily without reinstall everything?? Thank you~ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 You can use acronis true image and tell it to make a drive CLONE... They also make another product called: MIGRATE EASY Both of these products contain the software needed to make the clone. To begin, clone the drive and when done, use Parition Magic to make a partition of UNALLOCATED and UNFORMATTED SPACE. When done that, tell it to merge your OSx86 partition and the newly partitioned unallocated and unformatted partition together. It should work. If not, it's ok because you'll have your original disk untouched! Another trick, make another unformatted and unallocated partition. Tell OSX to format that partition. Then use Partition Magic in Windows or Partition Magic for Dos. Merge your OSX partition and the newly formatted partition together. Boot to OSX and enjor your new free space. Hope this helps a little, I am sure someone here knows a better way...but it's all I got atm... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-185669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 THanks for help, i will try that ~ one more qa, can i use symantec ghost to clone the drive directly from the old partition to a new one with bigger size?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-186774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Dude...to be honest you should probably reformat, repartition and reinstall OSx86... Once you get into resizing partitions and disk cloning you could be asking for huge headaches. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-186825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 really? that's going to be sad Another problems, do you know how can change the os x partition (af) form logical back to primary , after i clone the hardisk , it changes to logical , i can't change by partition magic too .... Thanks ~~ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-187877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Hdds can only have 4 active partitions from what I have read... Using Partition Magic you should be able to right click the drive and at the bottom option move the menu over to SET ACTIVE. If that doesn't work you have a bigger problem than when you first started. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-187916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 NO, my problems is , partition magic seem can not convert the af partition from logical to primary , any other methods for this other than partition magic... Seem re-install is the only way Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-188168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack84a Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 acronis disk director will do it as well, you might wanna try that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-188283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share Posted September 14, 2006 Thanks for you all , i'hv finally success repartition into a bigger size without re-install i don't have acronis disk , so i use partition manager instead, i think this a useful software that can even change drive type same as diskpart ~ another problems not related to this, my mac os x will hang at the desktop after booting and without any response sometimes, wt' actually the probems is , anyone knows? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-188482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share Posted September 14, 2006 i can boot in it , but i found a problems = = can i fix this ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-188492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 can i fix this ?? Boot your install DVD, go to Utilities menu -> Disk Utility, select your OSX partition and select Repair. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-188548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Parition Magic for Windows is the stuff dreams are made of! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27225-how-can-i-resize-my-osx86-partition/#findComment-188763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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