But I have to say that my experience was flawless and the $19.99 was TOTALLY worth it. I have seen others have problems due to FAT partitions and matching versions of Mac OS with a compatible version of Camptune. I realize that I might be a slightly different situtation than most with a new/clean machine already formatted to NTFS. The whole process (front to back) took about 15 minutes. I just installed CampTune X (through a digital download), installed the product, and changed my partition size. I did some searching online before beginning the process and I'm so glad I did. before going futher down the path of getting my machine "all set up" and ready to use. I felt I had made a mistake to not make my Bootcamp partition larger.īecause I had just bought the computer (and had only invested a day of my time) I figured that I would bit the bullet and go throught the process of killing my Bootcamp partition, recreating it, reinstalling Windows, etc. Within hours I had second thoughts because I will use this machine primarily as a Windows machine. 250GB for the Mac and Windows/Bootcamp partitions). When I made the bootcamp partition I split my drive 50/50 (i.e. I used Bootcamp to create a partition (formatted NTFS - that was the only choice) and installed Windows 7 professional. Since the original post is from 2011, I though I would offer the experience I had recently with Camptune.ĬONTEXT: Yesterday, I bought a new MacBook Pro (Retina, 13"). Hope this saves someone the headaches I had! third time was a charm! Worked perfectly and both partitions are now humming away nicely. (there was some evidence from postings online that this is a problem) Then, in Mac OS disk utility, I ran repair disk. In Mac OS disk utility partition tab, I stretched the Mac partition to include all of the space between the 2 partitions. second try generated a 'cross-linked files' error. First try to resize the partition generated a Disk i/o error. (I have read lots of unfortunate stories from people that didnt backup before using CampTune so back it up and save yourself.) CampTune includes a nifty little backup tool for the paranoid folks like myself. CampTune requires that you burn a cd then boot from that cd. after purchase, product key didnt work but Paragon corrected after 24 hours waiting So, in case anyone else has the same challenges, here's my $0.02: In the end, it was well worth the $20 but there were headaches along the way. When I discovered I couldn't increase the size of my BC partition without deleting and reinstalling it, I was pretty desperate to try anything that would not create the days of work involved.
Win7 would have no problem with a GPT-only partition, but Bootcamp makes a hybrid MBR anyway. The heart of the problem seems to be that the Mac wants a GPT partition table, but for Bootcamp, it creates a hybrid MBR partition which is what Win7 sees.
Resizing it with Win7 created a mess: the Mac would still see the original size. Windows 7 looked like it could resize it, but not move it. How to resize and move all the partitions (including the hidden EFI and Recovery partitions), to fill the free space?ĭisk Utility will not let you touch the Bootcamp partition. There was just a lot of free unpartitioned space at the end of the new drive.
After using Clonezilla to backup the drive and restore it to the bigger one, the partitions were obviously still the same size. The drive had Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Bootcamp with Windows 7. I needed to replace a drive in a Mac mini with a bigger one.