Should apple disk utility format NTFS

1. Yes, unless third-party software is installed.

2. The Windows installer offers the NTFS formatting option, and the Mac OS X partition is preformatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The process of setting up Boot Camp doesn’t normally involve the Disk Utility.

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You used Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows. Part of the process is formatting the drive. Disk Utility can not format the drive for Windows.

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

Try using WinClone instead.

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NotAppleSupportGuy wrote:

Am trying to shift my Win Bootcamp to another drive because the WIN partition is too small.

Disk Utility does not offer me the NTFS system as a formatting option. Is this right?

But you have a WIN Partition running Windows. It will format any drive to NTFS, including the new destination disk for Windows. DU does not support NTFS creation due to licensing. DU does offer exFAT, however natively.

NotAppleSupportGuy wrote:

The current Bootcamp partition is formatted NTFS and I can't imagine Windows having let me format the Mac OS partition Mac OS Extended (Journaled), so it seems reasonable to think I did all this in Mac Disk Utility.

BC Assistant created FAT32 (DU can also create FAT32), which the Windows installer converted to NTFS. You would have used the following two steps during installation of Windows on a Mac.

Buggered if I can work it out.......Any help you can offer will be appreciated.

If you are trying to clone Windows to resize it, as Niel points out, use Winclone, Clonezilla or CampTune.