Re-Partitioning Mac/Windows Hard Drive

I already went throught boot camp and have windows XP installed. When i set everything up I only did a 5gb partition. Is there any way for me to re-size the partition without redoing everything?

As the stickies in every forum state, all bootcamp and windows question belong in the bootcamp/windows forums.

Moving.

Sorry again

Not really, no.

Just start the bootcamp assistant, tell it to merge the 2 partitions again (your OSX data should remain untouched) and then repartition it with a larger windows drive and reinstall windows xp.

I was trying to want to repartition the drive without having to re-install Windows XP

DeathToPCs said:

I was trying to want to repartition the drive without having to re-install Windows XP

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I was just reading on Apple's support site and it said that you can't resize unless you run bootcamp again.

Oh, ok thanks

no, you have to erase the windows partition, re-partition, and install xp again.

Yeah I got that... thanks

You might be able to resize the partitions with Partition Magic from Windows, but I don't know if Partition Magic can handle mac formated partitions.

avcabob said:

You might be able to resize the partitions with Partition Magic from Windows, but I don't know if Partition Magic can handle mac formated partitions.

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As long as the XP paritition is formatted as NTFS, Partition Magic 8.0 (and above) should work just fine to resize the Windows Partitions. I don't know if PM8 will resize Mac partitions. Haven't tried it out.

Resizing the NTFS partition with partition magic will likely break the other partitions, including the boot loader & your HFS+ (OS X) partition.