Comments on: Resize a Boot Camp Partition for Use with VMware Fusion

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:34:52 +0000

The article reads: “Once the backup is complete, run Boot Camp Assistant and use the option to restore you disk to a single Mac OS X Volume”.

I want to now: How long it takes to complete the restoration? It’s a 120 MB hard disk Macbook with Leopard. I tried to do this a whole 8 hours and i had to stop the process, because it didn’t happen to do anything.

Thank you in advance for any help you could provide.

By: Lenster

Lenster — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:59:39 +0000

Sorry forgot to say that re booting in bootcamp only works fine so defo something to do with vmware me thinks …. got a deadline approaching for my Masters Dissertation and this happens !! almost tempted to go and buy word for mac. .. help me please…

By: Lenster

Lenster — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:57:00 +0000

I have followed the winclone route, trashed the vmware bootcamp files from the lib and restarted the bootcamp option in vmware. I can get the system to boot into safe mode but for some reason i get a black screen when starting normally?

any ideas ?

By: Malachi Rothschild

Malachi Rothschild — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:45:59 +0000

Gah I think I just didn’t format the partition properly.

By: Malachi Rothschild

Malachi Rothschild — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:43:52 +0000

I followed the instructions pretty much to the letter. The only thing I did differently is use RBrowser instead of terminal to view and move the hidden files. I’ve used it for that before without any complications. When I tried to start up windows I got a disk error. Does anyone have any ideas about what might have caused that and how I might be able to fix the problem? I’m using 10.5.4.

By: robro

robro — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:32:16 +0000

yeah, one of those dumb windows vs mac things. I wish I didn’t have to deal with windows on my mac, but I have to for my work vpn…

thx for the info on this site btw.

By: Scott Meves

Scott Meves — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:48:29 +0000

@robro — Thanks for the update. What a strange problem to encounter. I’m glad you found a fix!!

By: robro

robro — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:45:15 +0000

Hi,

Just wanted to report in that I got this working! apparently, the problem was that upon selecting the partition to install xp on, I only had a choice for NTFS for some reason.

after some googling, etc, I found that it may have been the xp disc itself. apprarently, some of them don’t work on the install well for some reason. the solution is to burn the xp pro cd into a iso and then burn it back onto a blank cd. when I tried installing with that new copy of the xp cd, then I saw the options to format to fat.

then I followed the rest of the directions, and it worked fine.

thank you.

btw, here’s the link on creating an iso image and burning it back:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f59/create-iso-image-mac-os-x-using-built-disk-utility-app-200501/

By: robro

robro — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:37:48 +0000

Hi,

i followed your directions to the ‘t’ but I get a ‘non system disk error, press any key to restart’ error message when I try to boot into the windows partition…

any idea on why this may be happening?

thank you.

By: Siva

Siva — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:24:09 +0000

According to following article looks like it might be more easier to backup and restore using WinClone.

http://lonewolf-links.blogspot.com/2007/09/mbp-w-bootcamp-seamless-hdd-upgrade.html

Looks like it is a simple as below.

1. Create an image of BootCamp using WinClone
2. Delete and re-create (with the required size greater than or equal to previous size) BootCamp partition using Boot Camp Assistant.
3. Start the Windows installation, and get past where you’ve formatted the C: drive as NTFS.
4. Reboot into Mac and resotre the image created in step-1 using WinClone.

Haven’t personally tried. Planning to do it soon.