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    Trying to shrink the Windows Bootcamp Partition

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mmoy, Sep 4, 2010.

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    I split my hard drive equally when doing the Bootcamp install and find that I really don't use Windows that much and would like to shrink the Windows partition and make the Mac OS X partition larger. I am using Winclone to try to do this but I've run into problems.

    I have a good Winclone backup (which is good because I've blown away my Windows partition several times) and the restore works great. I've run the shrink operation on the Windows partition and am just about to make a Winclone with the shrink. The problem is when I do a restore, Winclone says that the partition is too small for the partition image. I assume that there's a way to fix the partition image but haven't found it yet.

    Anyone else gone through this that could provide me with a pointer?
     
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    I found the solution in a blog post. You need to deselect the bottom three checkboxes in the preferences panel. Not sure what these things do but Winclone is busy restoring my Windows image into its new 36 GB partition (from 116 GB). It will be nice to have more space on the Mac OS X side for video editing.
     
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