Hi, actually, you can use Bootcamp to resize the Windows partition,
but you will need to reinstall Windows after the resizing. Even if it
has been activated, it will recognise that it is on the same laptop.
So, no danger at all to the Mac side of the machine. This is what
Bootcamp does, it partitions your hard drive without harming what you
already have. It would be a good idea to read the information
available on the Apple website.
You have just been given two lots of info that contradict each other
- one person says it will be OK, the other says it won't, but I am
speaking from experience with Bootcamp and resizing the Windows
partition.
cheers, Susan.
On 24/04/2007, at 2:10 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 24/04/2007, at 7:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi every1,
Just got a new Macbook 60GHz 2G Intel Core Duo 1Gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
as part of the laptops for teachers program here in VIC.
Kevin ,
Did u get an answer to this ?
I am guessing you have an error in your description above....
should the 60GHz really be 60 GB as in a hard drive ?
Does this mean with your present partitions you have
52 GB for Mac and then 8 Gb for the XP ?
And a short answer is that while there are some options to
rearrange partition sizes ,
they are full of DANGER .
Your best procedure is to REFORMAT the drive , which of course
means a complete reinstallation after the reformat .
Mac would be easy if you had an external firewire drive , use
something
like Superduper to copy all your Mac info onto the external
drive ,
and then it's available to copy back after the reformat ..
As for XP I know nothing about that ... not even what formatting is
needed on the Hard Drive for it.
Older Macs used to use HFS plus formatting , but the Intel Macs
are using something else ..
might be.... guid . I have no experience with it.
HTH
Bob
It came bundled with XP installed in a partition of just 8GB. Is
there
any way of increasing this partition size for XP to say 20GB or so?
TIA
Cheers,
Kevin from Wycheproof.
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