cthinh Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I have a 320GB drive on my system in Dell Dimension 8400. I created 4 partition. 1 for WinXP 2 for DATA 3 for MUSIC (45 gb free) 4 for MAC (18 gb existing) Because I need more space to install some software like Final Cut Pro or iLife '06. Now I want to resize it to 25gb. What can I do?. I used Acronis Disk Director to Dual Boot with WindowXP&MAC. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34887-how-to-resize-mac-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Move your music files to DATA temporarily. Move your /User/(your-user-name)/Library directory and /Applications directory from MAC to DATA temporarily. Use your boot DVD to erase the Mac partition as MS-DOS. Boot to Windows and run Acronis. Delete MUSIC and MAC partitions. Make new partitions for Music and Mac of whatever size. Make sure both are primary partitions, not logical/extended. Format OSX partition as FAT32 and give it ID=AF. Use install DVD to install OSX on Mac partition. Boot to OSX (may have to tweak Acronis a little - right click on OSX icon in Acronis and select Properties. Go to Partitions and select OSX partition and click the Active box). Copy your User/(your-user-name)/Library and /Applications directories back to new OSX installations. Reboot. Copy your Music files back to new Music partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34887-how-to-resize-mac-partition/#findComment-247693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Also iPartition from Coriolis can resize HFS+ http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php And it's unibin. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34887-how-to-resize-mac-partition/#findComment-247850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakayo Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 Won't that program mess up his partitions, he mentioned dell demention 8400 so it's a hackintosh therefore uses mbr not "gui or giu" I can't remember, if you still believe the program works for that please inform of success, I'v been waiting to make more space in my OSX Partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34887-how-to-resize-mac-partition/#findComment-251233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 I haven't tried iPartition. From the website: Resize HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) partitions, keeping data intact. Works with Apple and GUID partition schemes with the ability to convert between the two schemes. (-- but also says --) Compatible with Boot Camp on Intel Macs. So, unsure about MBR partitioning since I think Bootcamp relies on the EFI in Intel Macs and they partition as GUID. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34887-how-to-resize-mac-partition/#findComment-251363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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