Not sure how you could clone just the BC partition and restore it, as OSX does
some majik to make it work.
How's about a totally clean install and then running a copy of Virtual Box for
your Windoze environment?
Any time I get a new machine I do a total wipe and clean install. No telling
what
clay monroe wrote:
Now I need to repartition the thing so I can use OSX, but I do
not want to lose the winblows. Need winblows so I can use the
EPS and the manuals on CD. Anybody have good ideas?
Virtualbox.
Or VMWare.
--Philip
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You could use disk utility in Mac OS X to resize the partition.
If it won't let you, then you could clone the existing Mac OS X partition
to the free space between the existing partition windows and Mac OS X
partition, blow away the existing Mac OS X partition, and resize the newer
one to the
Dan Penoff wrote:
Not sure how you could clone just the BC partition and restore it, as OSX does
some majik to make it work.
How's about a totally clean install and then running a copy of Virtual Box for
your Windoze environment?
I'd back up the windows activation key and then do a clean
If I had the evil Redmond OS, I would not have the issue. Not worth wasting
cash to beg a license for the joy of using their bloatware. Windorks is on
there and I just need to keep what is there. I have SL and can do that
install, but need to pop winblows onto the VM.
Which repartitioning
Win7 is sitting on 57gb of the drive. I squished it to 32 in windows, so that
windows sees itself as occupying less space. Can not get it into the meager
6gb of free space in the OSX partition as virtual machine. Still takes up
space.
Disk tools does not allow resizing BC partitions, so I
Do not have windows disk. Only have Cd drive in the macbook, so would need to
install from another source. Maybe torrent version of the DVD as iso or dmg.
clay
On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Dan Penoff wrote:
Not sure how you could clone just the BC partition and restore
I wouldn't bother with the dmg file. Let vmware do the conversion of Boot
Camp.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
Do not have windows disk. Only have Cd drive in the macbook, so would
need to install from another source. Maybe torrent version of the
