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From: Sean Little on 7 May 2008 01:35
Hello,

I have a bit of a problem. I am running 10.5.2 on my MacBook, and I
have a windows vista partition that is configured for boot camp and
Parallels. My problem is that when I originally created my partition,
I was somewhat short-sighted, and now the partition is nearly full. I
purchased the "upgraded" version of Parallels that includes an
Arcronis utility that is supposed to be able to increase the partition
size. But this operation has failed every time I have attempted it
(about 5 times with attempts at 5 different sizes). I am wondering if
anyone here has had a similar problem and how and if they were able to
fix it. While the problem is not yet critical, I only have about 4
gigs of free space left on my windows partition. I would sure like to
find a solution for this.

SL
From: Sean Little on 7 May 2008 10:37
Bump.

On May 6, 10:35 pm, Sean Little <seanl...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a bit of a problem. I am running 10.5.2 on my MacBook, and I
> have a windows vista partition that is configured for boot camp and
> Parallels. My problem is that when I originally created my partition,
> I was somewhat short-sighted, and now the partition is nearly full. I
> purchased the "upgraded" version of Parallels that includes an
> Arcronis utility that is supposed to be able to increase the partition
> size. But this operation has failed every time I have attempted it
> (about 5 times with attempts at 5 different sizes). I am wondering if
> anyone here has had a similar problem and how and if they were able to
> fix it. While the problem is not yet critical, I only have about 4
> gigs of free space left on my windows partition. I would sure like to
> find a solution for this.
>
> SL

From: Juan I. Cahis on 7 May 2008 11:59
Dear Sean & friends:

Sean Little <seanlitt(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a bit of a problem. I am running 10.5.2 on my MacBook, and I
>have a windows vista partition that is configured for boot camp and
>Parallels. My problem is that when I originally created my partition,
>I was somewhat short-sighted, and now the partition is nearly full. I
>purchased the "upgraded" version of Parallels that includes an
>Arcronis utility that is supposed to be able to increase the partition
>size. But this operation has failed every time I have attempted it
>(about 5 times with attempts at 5 different sizes). I am wondering if
>anyone here has had a similar problem and how and if they were able to
>fix it. While the problem is not yet critical, I only have about 4
>gigs of free space left on my windows partition. I would sure like to
>find a solution for this.
>
>SL

Maybe the best solution, is to buy a bigger hard disk (2,5", most
probably SATA, they are very big now), they are very cheap, to connect
it externally first, to clone the Mac partition to it, to clone the
BootCamp partition at the end using "Winclone for MAC", it is free,
and to go to a Mac service center to exchange boot hard disks.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
From: Sean Little on 7 May 2008 12:03
On May 7, 8:59 am, Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBAS...(a)attglobal.net>
wrote:
> Dear Sean & friends:
>
>
>
> Sean Little <seanl...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello,
>
> >I have a bit of a problem. I am running 10.5.2 on my MacBook, and I
> >have a windows vista partition that is configured for boot camp and
> >Parallels. My problem is that when I originally created my partition,
> >I was somewhat short-sighted, and now the partition is nearly full. I
> >purchased the "upgraded" version of Parallels that includes an
> >Arcronis utility that is supposed to be able to increase the partition
> >size. But this operation has failed every time I have attempted it
> >(about 5 times with attempts at 5 different sizes). I am wondering if
> >anyone here has had a similar problem and how and if they were able to
> >fix it. While the problem is not yet critical, I only have about 4
> >gigs of free space left on my windows partition. I would sure like to
> >find a solution for this.
>
> >SL
>
> Maybe the best solution, is to buy a bigger hard disk (2,5", most
> probably SATA, they are very big now), they are very cheap, to connect
> it externally first, to clone the Mac partition to it, to clone the
> BootCamp partition at the end using "Winclone for MAC", it is free,
> and to go to a Mac service center to exchange boot hard disks.
>
> Thanks
> Juan I. Cahis
> Santiago de Chile (South America)
> Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Man! That solution is way more extreme than what I was hoping for. It
took some serious pain to get windows vista configured for use in both
parallels and boot camp. I suppose this may be what I have to do,
though. Thanks for the response.

Any other ideas?
From: Fred McKenzie on 7 May 2008 15:04
In article <juj324l7ndhka7bg50b7ibmrvfgas91evb(a)4ax.com>,
Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> wrote:

> to clone the
> BootCamp partition at the end using "Winclone for MAC", it is free

Sean & Juan-

Can't Apple's Boot Camp Assistant.app resize the Boot Camp partition?
If so, can you first clone the existing Windows partition to an image on
the Macintosh partition, resize it, and clone the image back?

Fred
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