Mini Tool Partition

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Mini Tool Partition

Hi,

I've created a windows 7 bootcamp partition on my macbook pro a few weeks ago to run Autocad and Revit and decided to increase it today. Everything went smoothly.

1. I decreased my osx 10.10.1 partition size through Disk Utility.

2. I then used mini tool partition to fill up the extra space i had made available. Increased windows partition from 50Gigabyte to 100Gigabyte

Since i did this on the windows 7 side is all looks great. showing i have around 400 Gigabyte on the osx drive and around a 100 on the windows drive.

On the other hand, the Mac partition, I use to have Windows 7 logo on my desktop which is no longer and when i look at the drives, its still shows the extra 50 Gigabytes I've freed through Disk Utility as free space and shows my windows partition as having 50 Gigabytes.

I know this is not much of an issue, and wont probably my experience in anyways, but my ocd sort of hates it,

Thanks a lot for your help and time

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Jan 30, 2015 11:44 PM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Jan 31, 2015 8:14 AM in response to H.Despres

No tools should be used to resize/partition Windows, once installed. If you reboot, your Windows installation will get corrupted, because your MBR and GPT are now out-of-sync.

From Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions - Apple Support

Can I resize the Windows partition after installing Windows?

No. Back up your important files, then use Boot Camp Assistant to delete the old partition and create a new one.

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H.Despres Author

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Jan 31, 2015 10:34 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks for the info, I should of done more research before proceeding to resizing partition, I found out about mini tool partition on here, in communities support, so I thought it would be trustworthy.

What would be the right procedure for me to follow now.

would deleting windows partition through disk utility and restarting windows install through bootcamp work?

i dont mind loosing all files on the windows partition, all my work gets transferred to Autocad 360 (cloud drive).

thanks for your help

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Loner T

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Jan 31, 2015 11:08 AM in response to H.Despres

Re-installing Windows using Bootcamp Assistant would be the cleanest possible solution. I would also recommend removing the existing Windows installation using Bootcamp Assistant before you start over again Do not use any other tool, including Disk Utility for any Bootcamp work.

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H.Despres Author

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Jan 31, 2015 11:57 AM in response to Loner T

Would it be safe for me to keep windows partition as is for the next, days, weeks. I dont really have the time to reinstall windows for now. No chance it could corrupt my osx partition right?

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Loner T

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Jan 31, 2015 12:01 PM in response to H.Despres

As long as all your data is going to be in the Cloud and you can recover it, it is fine. If you have issues, please post back and a recovery can be attempted, if you want.

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H.Despres Author

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Jan 31, 2015 12:09 PM in response to Loner T

I apologize my question wasn't clear enough. What I wanted to know is, are there any chances my Mac partition could get corrupted, I do care about this partition, even though back ups are done everyday, whenever I am on my home wifi through time capsule.

thanks a lot for your time, will let you know of the outcome when I re install the windows partition.

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Loner T

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Jan 31, 2015 12:17 PM in response to H.Despres

Your Mac partition will continue to work, since the native GPT was resized. It is the MBR (being out of sync with GPT) which causes issues for Windows.

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H.Despres Author

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Feb 2, 2015 3:08 PM in response to Loner T

Letting you know on how my issue is going, you were right about the corrupted partition. I just tried to boot the Windows 7 drive and all i get is a black sreen with a little bar blinking at the top left corner.

just getting ready to reformat and install through Bootcamp once more.

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