Hi,
I got a Macbook pro 2015 with 1TB of HDD and installed windows 10 on it using boot camp with size of 500GB for windows.
Now can i make that 500GB into Three Different Partions using "Disk Management" on windows???
If i do that will it cause problems???
Windows 10
harshav339 wrote:
Hi,
I got a Macbook pro 2015 with 1TB of HDD and installed windows 10 on it using boot camp with size of 500GB for windows.
Now can i make that 500GB into Three Different Partions using "Disk Management" on windows???
If i do that will it cause problems???
Thanks for that, leroydouglas!
Inside the response to that query you posted are several links to articles and and Tools software by Rod Smith. One is a magazine-length article about partitioning for 'Windows as guest OS':
Hybrid MBRs: The Good, the Bad, and the So Ugly You'll Tear Your Eyes Out
The overriding rule you must follow is:
"DO NOT use Windows tools to modify the size or any other attribute of the Disk Partition Map, or it will clobber the Mac OS partition, effectively destroying MacOS. Windows Utilities do not understand they are a guest OS"
harshav339 wrote:
create multiple partitions on boot camp
Good distillation Grant Bennet-Alder !
I was never a fan of Bootcamp. Easy enough to use a virtual machine:
VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
ParallesDesktop http://www.parallels.com/
Fusion https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion
On my Parallels I run: WindowsXP (2x), Window7, Window8, Windows10, Ubuntu Linux, Debian GNU
Thanks for the reply man.
But is there any way to Divide my single Boot camp Windows C Drive of 500GB into three different partitions, For ex Drive C:150GB, Drive D:150GB and Drive E:200GB on Windows to Organize my files.
harshav339 wrote:
Thanks for the reply man.
But is there any way to Divide my single Boot camp Windows C Drive of 500GB into three different partitions, For ex Drive C:150GB, Drive D:150GB and Drive E:200GB on Windows to Organize my files.
Did you read all the links provided????
Yeah man, I did.
But i could not understand all that stuff.
So i am leaving that to you and i just want to know that, can i do multiple partitons on bootcamp windows?
If i can do that, please tell me how to do that😕😟, by any means i.e by any third-party-tools.
Btw,thankyou for the response.
Maybe i was using the wrong words.
I was meant Multiple partitions as Sub-partitions.
harshav339 wrote:
Yeah man, I did.
But i could not understand all that stuff.
So i am leaving that to you and i just want to know that, can i do multiple partitons on bootcamp windows?
Multiple partitions as Sub-partitions.
The answer is no, you can not.
On a 2015 MBP, W10 is installed on a GPT-only ask using EFI. You can create up to 128 partitions. Rod Smith's caveat is valid for Hybrid MBR (pre-2012 Macs) Windows installations. This is because Windows Disk Management does not understand Hybrid MBRs. MBR stuffing is a partial work-around for this issue.
If you are willing to wipe the current W10 installation using BC Assistant (only), then you should create all the partitions you need using Disk Utility (only). Once you have the partitions setup, choose one as your designated W10 installation and install W10 using EFI Boot. This designated partition must be formatted as Free Space, because you need a separate MSR and MSD parts (See M$ Technet for diskpart and GPT disks).
Apart from OS X (which is JHFS+ or CS volumes), W10 will be NTFS, the remaining partitions must be formatted as necessary using the appropriate tools. If you need read-write, W10 can only use FAT, exFAT or NTFS. OS X can only read NTFS.
Do not mix diskpart and Disk Utility.
You are saying that, I should remove windows which was installed by BCA( I will do that because i dont have any important data on windows).
1. Then by using disk utility, i should make the required no. of partitions(for me its 3) for the windows side.
2. Install windows without bootcamp( by booting into the installation media at the startup) .
3. while installing windows i should format the required partitons using NTFS, so that windows OS can the partitions.
Am i right with the conclusion of your reply and will the above thing work???
I want to install my windows using USB and to create the installation media, can i use the bootcamp(only for creating the installation media).
Thankyou for the reply man and i badly need sub-partitions on windows side ( as a producer i need to put my projects and samples on different partitons to not get confused).
You are saying that, I should remove windows which was installed by BCA( I will do that because i dont have any important data on windows).
By conclusion of your reply, i tried to write what i understood and which of the below method will work???
Method 1:
1.Then by using disk utility, i should make the required no. of partitions(for me its 3) for the windows side.
2. Install windows without bootcamp( by booting into the installation media at the startup) .
3. while installing windows i should format the required partitons using NTFS, so that windows OS can the partitions.
(Or)
Method 2:
1.Make a single partition in disk utility for windows.
2. In windows installer, i should delete the partition that was created using disk utitlity and again allocate the space( to make it proper NTFS partition)
3. Then extend the partiton into three sub-partitions.
4. Install windows in one of those NTFS formatted partitions.
Am i right with the conclusion of your reply???
I want to install my windows using USB and to create the installation media, can i use the bootcamp(only for creating the installation media).
Thankyou for the reply man and i badly need sub-partitions on windows side ( as a producer i need to put my projects and samples on different partitons to not get confused).
Please post the output of the the following OS X Terminal commands...
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
Can i post the output after a week because i cant get on to my MBP as i was out of station!!
Sorry man.
Can i post the output after a week because i cant get on to my MBP as i was out of station!!
Sorry man.
But, i just want to know that is that posiible to make sub-partitons and if yes, can i use the above methos to do that?
Method 2 will not work.
In Method 1, you are partitioning the disk, which has no direct relationship to the OS.
You should have EFI, OSX and Recovery HD as a standard OSX layout, which is disk0s1, disk0s2 and disk0s3.
If you need three additional partitions, create them using DU and you will then get disk0s4, disk0s5, disk0s6. Choose sizes as appropriate and format them as FAT32.
Choose one (say disk0s4) and erase it (only once) in OSX Terminal as
diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s4
This will return an error, because Free Space has no associated disk slice. Now your disks are numbered, disk0s1-disk0s5 with a 'gap', between disk0s3 and disk0s4. Find a USB mouse and USB Keyboard, and boot from the W10 installer (USB or DVD). This needed because your installer does not have Apple Preboot Environment ($WinPEDriver$). Choose EFI boot from the Installer and point to the gap between disk0s4 and disk0s5. Do not use a USB HDD, only a 8-16Gb USB Flash drive for Windows Installer. Once W10 is installed, installed Apple drivers that you download using the Action menu in BC Assistant. Once you can test switching between the two OSes, format the partitions as necessary for access.
The disk slices will be renumbered once W10 is installed and you will get a new disk0s4 (MSR) and disk0s5 (MSD). Disk0s6 and disk0s7 should be the two FAT32 partitions that you need to format.
Please report any issues.
This is valid only on Late 2013 and later Macs which are UEFI-compliant. Prior Macs should not use this.
How to create multiple partitions on boot camped windows 10??
