Partitioning Bootcamp Within Windows


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My neighbour just brought around his iMac, and he wants Windows 7 Premium installed on it which shouldn't be a problem. What i was wondering is that, is it possible to divide the Bootcamp partition after installing Windows 7.

Example:

1.150GB Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Which is already installed)

2. Creating 120GB Bootcamp ( After installing Windows I would like to snatch of at least 60GB out of 120GB for Data/Backup)

I know its possible, but I have to make sure the Leopard partition doesn't get messed up, which I personally believe it wouldn't, but like I said I just want to make sure.

Cheers chaps

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I don't think you can do this or at least it's pretty likely any Windows partition tools are going to screw up the Mac partition because they aren't built to recognize them. I don't really see why you would want to do this anyway as having a different partition on the same drive isn't a backup if the whole drive fails. You could just point to the same folder on your OS X partition to store all your data since OS X can't write to an NTFS drive.

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I don't think you can do this or at least it's pretty likely any Windows partition tools are going to screw up the Mac partition because they aren't built to recognize them. I don't really see why you would want to do this anyway as having a different partition on the same drive isn't a backup if the whole drive fails. You could just point to the same folder on your OS X partition to store all your data since OS X can't write to an NTFS drive.

I know it isn't a backup, but tbh I didn't know you could actually point it to the same folder of OS X, so cheers for that mate.

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