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I'm trying to resize (to make my Win XP partit...

2009-09-22T20:50:06.676+01:00

I'm trying to resize (to make my Win XP partition larger. Terminal says this volume does not support resizing. Can I accomplish the same thing by WinCloning my XP partition, reformatting and resizing partitions in Disk Utility, then running rEFIt? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks for the tip! It worked perfectly with Leopa...

2009-07-24T13:07:14.207+01:00

Thanks for the tip!
It worked perfectly with Leopard & WinXP. No blue screens and no need to "repair" WinXP.
Please note you have a little ("discutil" --> "diskutil").

Two small tweaks. 1. make sure you maintain the ...

2009-05-13T14:48:00.000+01:00

Two small tweaks.
1. make sure you maintain the small unallocated space between OS X and your Windows partition.
2. drop your virtual machine from Fusion and re-add it by closing VMWare, removing the Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/ directory and then restarting VMWare. It will pickup the boot partition and redo your VM.

More detail on the first item, Bootcamp (or OSX) looks for a very small (512k) unpartitioned space between your OS X partition and your Windows partition. If you want to be able to see your Windows partition as a valid disk inside OS X (system preferences > startup disk), you need to maintain that space. When I Gparted, i assumed that I could just move the partition all the way over to end of the OS X partition.

Be sure to note, before you do any resizing, the size of this space so when you use Gparted, you can ensure the starting position maintains that unallocated space.

Thanks for this post! I put a new hard drive in my...

2009-03-06T14:56:00.000Z

Thanks for this post! I put a new hard drive in my MacBook and tried to grow my windows partition with gparted...and thought I'd wrecked the whole thing for sure when the windows partition didn't come up on the boot screen. rEFIt was just what I needed.

A couple of things went differently for me that may help others who find this post:
I was only trying to grow the windows partition into unpartitioned space...I wasn't touching my OSX partition. (I used Winclone to copy my bootcamp partition from the old drive to the new and it worked great...except it kept the old partition size)
I used Windows XP rather than Vista.
Once I used rEFIt to restore my MBR, I rebooted and everything worked perfectly. I didn't have to restore my XP partition from the installer or anything.
I use Parallels, and it booted up fine--no reset necessary like you had with VMWare.

Whew! That was a pretty stressful half hour. Thanks again for the rEFIt walkthrough. It was very helpful.