How do I Increase My Windows Partition using Bootcamp?

[jay1983]

I recently bought a MacBook and need to use SAGE accounting system for my business on it. Being a great lover of Macs i did want to have to get a PC again so decided to partition my hard drive which I did with no major issues. However, 2 days into using the system and my Windows XP Partition is telling me it only has 166MB of space left!!

How do I repartition my hard drive to allocate more space to the Windows partition?

Thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

PS. This was the most techy thing I had ever done up until this point so please use small words...lol

 

[Satcomer]

I found this on the net:

The first thing you need to do is format your 300gb drive as a FAT32 file systems (if you don't do this beforehand your drives & partitions may not show up correctly in the Windows installer), you can do this in the OS X terminal:

newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/rdisk#s1

Make sure to check your partition ID's as rdisk#s1 might differ from your setup.

Restart your Mac and boot from the Windows CD by holding down the "C" key on startup. Install Windows as usualy on to your external drive. To boot in to Windows after installation hold down CMD+OPTION+SHIFT+DEL @ startup. You can also use a program such as refit as a "bootloader" of sorts which makes it a bit easier to start up in whichever OS you want to use. Just install your Boot Camp drivers from the CD and off you go!

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I never tried this but someday you might to want to try.