[cwa107]

I just recently changed the hard drive out on my MacBook Pro. Before doing so, I backed up my existing Vista/Boot Camp partition with WinClone. I restored the Mac OS partition onto the new drive, then used Boot Camp to allocate 80GB to Windows. I restored my WinClone backup to the newly created Boot Camp partition. The trouble is, I created an 80GB partition using Boot Camp, but after restoring with WinClone, that partition appears to be 60GB (the original size of the backed up Vista partition).

I have tried using CampTune to resize the partition, but CampTune thinks that it's already 80GB. But when I boot up in Vista, Vista sees it as 60GB. Additionally, when I look at the partitions in Disk Utility, Disk Utility sees it as 80GB.

So, the question is, how do I convince Vista that this is truly an 80GB partition? I'm tempted to use Partition Magic, but I'm afraid that I might damage the partition map and/or the OS X partition.

[chscag]

My understanding is that the Disk Management utility in Vista can re-size partitions on the fly without any loss of data. Perhaps you can try that to get back the 20 Gb that Vista doesn't see.

Take a look here.

Regards.

[cwa107]

Cool, let me give that a shot. Thanks chscag.

[cwa107]

Weird stuff. It must have something to do with the way WinClone creates the image. Disk Management sees the partition as 80GB, although Windows itself only sees it as 60GB. I ran a CHKDSK, hoping it would realize the discrepancy and repair, but no dice. I'm thinking it might be time to remove the partition, allow BCA to create a new 60GB partition, restore the image and then use CampTune to reallocate the the partitions at 80GB for the Windows partition.

[bobtomay]

That just seems too strange.