In short, you have to drop one partition. You will lose all data on the partition you delete (so be sure to back up everything on it first), but you can expand the selected volume without losing any of its data.
#Winclone vs camptune free#
Disk Utility can decrease the size of any volume, but it can only increase the size of a volume if there’s enough free space available between the volume you wish to expand and the next partition on the drive.įor practical purposes, this means that if you want to increase the size of a volume, you may need to delete the partition below that volume. "Disk Utility allows you to resize existing volumes without losing data, but there are a few limitations. Have you tried Disk Utility? You might be able to adjust the partition size simply by sliding the dividing line between the partitions. There is a tutorial on resizing Bootcamp Partitions too. I think it would be wise to buy this one, Would appreciate others thoughts and feedback.Ĭarbon Copy won't do it. Has anyone used it ? Does it work without issues ? I also use Parallels – pointing to the bootcamp partition – would this all play nicely with it ? Most of my net searching seems to give dated information (which I'm not sure is current) but I did come across this program "Paragon Camptune" – which claims it can increase Bootcamp partitions with ease. I generally end up having a nice long chat to some agreeable young Indian gentleman from Bangalore to get it all happening again. It seems to deactivate every time I change something and won't auto activate over the web.
#Winclone vs camptune windows#
I must admit I'm not looking forward to this – windows always causes me grief – especially with the activation process. I thought the safest way would be to back up the win side (say with Carbon Copy ), delete the partition, create new and bigger partition, clone win copy back. I need to increase the size of the Windows partition. She tends to be a bit of a gamer and because most of the better games (and more variety) still tend to be on the win side – she is running out of space on that partition. Oddly, whenever I use Winclone, it makes the Boot Camp partition invisible (or at least it disappears from the desktop and the Finder sidebar), so since I don't know where it is, I just re-make it.My wife has an iMac running win 7 in bootcamp. usr/sbin/asr restore -noverify -puppetstrings -noprompt -erase -source "/Volumes/LaCie/Clone.winclone/Windows.dmg" -target "/dev/disk0s3" 1>&2 did not complete successfullyĪny idea what I should do? I have tried pressing mount and then restore and just pressing restore several times in Winclone. Return value of /usr/sbin/asr restore -noverify -puppetstrings -noprompt -erase -source "/Volumes/LaCie/Clone.winclone/Windows.dmg" -target "/dev/disk0s3" 1>&2 is 256
Not enough space on /dev/disk0s3 to restore usr/sbin/asr restore -noverify -puppetstrings -noprompt -erase -source "/Volumes/LaCie/Clone.winclone/Windows.dmg" -target "/dev/disk0s3" 1>&2Įrasing target device /dev/disk0s3.done The log is very long, but the part that I think shows the error is: However, when I try to restore it I get an error message telling me to check the log.
#Winclone vs camptune how to#
How to increase or decrease your Boot Camp partition - Dusty Reagan I recently made my XP partition larger with Boot Camp Assistant, since I don't have either the XP or OS X (I am running 10.6.2) discs on me, I used Winclone to save my XP data, following these steps:
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