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Re-sizing OS X & Boot Camp Windows partitions
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<blockquote data-quote="Ctrl-Opt-Del" data-source="post: 1356226" data-attributes="member: 215112"><p>A friend of mine who is on the same Aeronautical Engineering degree as I has a MacBook Pro (purchased late 2010, the last model without a ThunderBolt port; with a regular HDD, not an SSD). Due to the nature of our course & the software required he mainly uses it booted into Windows 7, however he originally only configured Boot Camp for a 100GB partition; he now wants to shrink the OS X partition to around that size & expand Windows into the free space.</p><p></p><p>Both he & I assumed that it would be a simple matter of booting into OS X, using Disk Utility to shrink the HFS+ partition, then booting into Windows and using the Partition Manager to expand the NTFS partition into the free space. However, Disk Utility will not allow him to shrink the Mac partition in the first place (and, to pre-empt the obvious question, his Mac partition is not full, containing only around 100GB of data, if that).</p><p></p><p>Does anyone have any idea why the Mac partition might be locked in size?</p><p></p><p>Cheers for any insight <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ctrl-Opt-Del, post: 1356226, member: 215112"] A friend of mine who is on the same Aeronautical Engineering degree as I has a MacBook Pro (purchased late 2010, the last model without a ThunderBolt port; with a regular HDD, not an SSD). Due to the nature of our course & the software required he mainly uses it booted into Windows 7, however he originally only configured Boot Camp for a 100GB partition; he now wants to shrink the OS X partition to around that size & expand Windows into the free space. Both he & I assumed that it would be a simple matter of booting into OS X, using Disk Utility to shrink the HFS+ partition, then booting into Windows and using the Partition Manager to expand the NTFS partition into the free space. However, Disk Utility will not allow him to shrink the Mac partition in the first place (and, to pre-empt the obvious question, his Mac partition is not full, containing only around 100GB of data, if that). Does anyone have any idea why the Mac partition might be locked in size? Cheers for any insight :) [/QUOTE]
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