iMac 27 - Boot Camp / Hard Disk Partition issue

Hi Guys

I've just taken delivery of a mid 2010 iMac 27 i7 with 1tb hard disk (That makes a weird gurgling sound at times - rather like the sound of my stomach rumbling...), anyway...

I have made a partition for windows with bootcamp and installed windows 7, all is working perfectly...but!

In windows I used the built in tools to shrink the size of my main win 7 partition and I created a new partition with the space to keep as a common files drive to make it easier to find music/movies/documents on either OS. That partition works fine on Win 7 but Snow Leopard cannot see it at all.

I'm running Paragon on the mac side of things (incase that's relevant).

Any ideas how to fix this issue (ie. how to view this partition on both O/S's)???

Thanks in advance for your help.

Snow Leopard is unable to see the drive you created using Disk Manager in Windows 7 because Disk Manager does not know how to update the Partition table in OS X. When you boot to Snow Leopard, what is the size of your Windows 7 partition that can be seen? Is it the original size before you shrank it or the new size?

For future reference, do not use Disk Manager for partition resizing unless the entire drive is dedicated to Windows. Use CampTune from Paragon software. CampTune "knows" how to resize and also updates the partition table correctly on the Mac side.

chscag said:

Snow Leopard is unable to see the drive you created using Disk Manager in Windows 7 because Disk Manager does not know how to update the Partition table in OS X. When you boot to Snow Leopard, what is the size of your Windows 7 partition that can be seen? Is it the original size before you shrank it or the new size?

For future reference, do not use Disk Manager for partition resizing unless the entire drive is dedicated to Windows. Use CampTune from Paragon software. CampTune "knows" how to resize and also updates the partition table correctly on the Mac side.

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Thanks for the info, do you know of any other alternatives at all? It seems CampTune only works if you install Windows via that software and I really dont want to have to do that again.