Reader Richard Lanier has a Windows issue — no , notthatissue , but rather one involving size . He writes :
I ’m running Windows 7 in a Boot Camp sectionalisation on my MacBook Pro . When I first configure Boot Camp I underrate how much I ’d employ Windows and I ’m now track down out of quad . How can I boom the size of it of the Boot Camp sectionalization ?
Let ’s start by taking a flavor at a couple of tools that provide the mean to a larger division .
The easiest is Paragon ’s $ 20Camptune X(pictured above ) . What makes it so easy is that you secern Camptune the size of it you ’d like your partition to be and , ply there ’s enough free place on your Mac division to give up some for Boot Camp , it takes care of the rest . I ran it last hebdomad on my MacBook Pro ’s Boot Camp partition and after 20 minute or so , my partition was increase from 30 to 40 GB .
Easy though it may be , it ’s always a dear idea to have a backup of your Boot Camp sectionalization before doing something like this . And for that backup the secure putz around is Twocanoes ’ $ 20WinClone 3 . Earlier versions of WinClone are not compatible with Apple ’s latest operating system so while it may have been innocent once , it ’s now something you must pungle up for .
Those intimate with Winclone are aware that with its help you may create a larger Boot Camp sectionalization without losing your original Windows data . The process involve creating an persona of the partition for safe keeping , deleting the original Boot Camp partition with Disk Utility , make a new , more talkative division ; and then move the data from the project partition to the young one with WinClone . Twocanoesoutlines the procedurein 25 steps .
Each has its advantage . Camptune require far less employment , but if your Windows data point is n’t back up in some other way , you face up the diminished risk of losing data if something go incorrect . The Winclone way is more tortuous , but it ’s safer .
Before leave the subject , allow me to offer one other hypnotism . deal running Boot Camp under virtualization . BothParallels Desktop for Mac and VMware Fusionallow you to spell your Boot Camp partitioning into one of their virtual machine . Once you do this , you’re able to resize their sectionalisation . ( Just to be clear , we ’re not talking about the physical Boot Camp sectionalisation that you bulge out with , but rather one you ’ve imported into the virtualization program . )
If you have a Mac made in the last few age you ’ll discover running Windows under virtualization as pleasant an experience as Windows can put up — particularly if you devote more than one C.P.U. to it . It saves you from the bother of rebooting to apply Windows and , of course , it ’s completely cool to be able-bodied to copy files between your Mac and Windows environs .
