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Q: Windows disc does not update after resizing boot camp partition

When I bought my iMac, it came with a 500 GB HDD. I used bootcamp to make a 200GB windows partition and a 300GB Mac partition. The other day I bought a 250GB SSD, and moved everything from my 300GB Mac partition onto the SSD.

 

My plan was to use the whole 500GB HDD for windows. So, I deleted the 300GB Mac partition and made it free space on the drive. I then expanded the boot camp partition to take up the whole drive using Mini Tool on windows 7.

 

Now, windows 7 shows that my drive is 465GB, but when I boot into mac, the bootcamp hard drive still reads 200GB and 300GB are "free space" even though I expanded the drive using Mini Tool.

 

I tried to fix this by filling up the hard drive with an extra 120 GB so it exceeded the 200GB limit that windows shows. But when I booted back into OSX to see if it had worked, none of the files were showing up in the drive, making me believe that boot camp and OS X are not reading changes I am making to the bootcamp drive when I use Windows.

 

How can I change this so Disk Utility shows the full size of the disc, like Mini Tool does?

 

I will try to upload screenshots soon.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 31, 2014 10:04 AM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jul 31, 2014 11:25 AM in response to Tregg
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    Jul 31, 2014 11:25 AM in response to Tregg

    Re-sizing Windows partitions is not supported on Bootcamp. It requires a clean install. The other option is using Winclone.

     

    Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions

     

    How can a Windows partition be resized after Windows is installed?

    You need to delete the Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant, and start over to change the size of the Windows partition. Back up your important Windows files first.

  • by Tregg,

    Tregg Tregg Jul 31, 2014 1:33 PM in response to Loner T
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    Jul 31, 2014 1:33 PM in response to Loner T

    Loner T,

     

    Thanks a lot for the quick reply and the great advice. If you wouldn't mind leaving some short instructions on how to use Winclone, it would really help me out. Also, I have a backup of windows I made using Reflect, will this help me?

     

    Two more questions as well...

     

    Will I need a windows install disc?

     

    And, will I need to reinstall all of the boot camp drivers?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jul 31, 2014 1:41 PM in response to Tregg
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    Jul 31, 2014 1:41 PM in response to Tregg

    For Winclone you may want to look at - http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/support

     

    For Windows, you can either use an ISO or a USB drive.

     

    You can install Bootcamp drivers to support Mac-specific hardware like Display drivers, BT, WiFi, etc. The bootcamp drivers also support rebooting and switching OSes.