I am running MACOS lion + Bootcamp on a IMAC with 1TB disk. my bootcamp partition is too big to practically backup (500GB) and restore. I would like to shrink it, shrink the MACOS partition (500GB) and use the spare disk space to define a NTFS partition (about 700GB) to hold my photos and videos to be accessed from windows7
this is what I plan to do:
1- remove most of the data (360GB of photos after backing them up to external disk) from the bootcamp partition.
2 - backup bootcamp with winclone,
3- delete the bootcamp partition, resize it (smaller) and restore it with winclone.
4- shrink the MACOS partition (with MACOS disk utility)
5- define a new NTFS partition with the space freed in the bootcamp and MACOS partitions
using MACOS
Does that make sense? how can I make sure that I can use the spare space from both MACOS and bootcamp partitions after I shrink them.
Note: I am quite a newbie in the MACOS world (linux experience)
Thanks for your help
this is what I plan to do:
1- remove most of the data (360GB of photos after backing them up to external disk) from the bootcamp partition.
2 - backup bootcamp with winclone,
3- delete the bootcamp partition, resize it (smaller) and restore it with winclone.
4- shrink the MACOS partition (with MACOS disk utility)
5- define a new NTFS partition with the space freed in the bootcamp and MACOS partitions
using MACOS
Does that make sense? how can I make sure that I can use the spare space from both MACOS and bootcamp partitions after I shrink them.
Note: I am quite a newbie in the MACOS world (linux experience)
Thanks for your help