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Saving space in bootcamp
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hey,
I just installed bootcamp yesterday and wasn't thinking when I made the partition. I, along with a few others on this forum, am stuck with a 5gb partition. This is far too small, as I would like to install games. I have read on the forum that there is no way to resize, however I did see a topic that said there is a way to install xp applications through OSX so I would save space. I can no longer find this topic, but is this possible? Has anyone else had any experience with doing this?
I'd like to install a few more games, but for now I'm just sticking with battlefield. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced! 
(Last edited by turntabletux; Jun 5, 2007 at 02:18 PM.
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You can choose ANY size partition when setting it up with Boot Camp; mine is 20GB I think. But as you note, once it's made you can't resize it. Unless you've invested a lot of time and effort into customizing your XP installation and installing lots of apps, I'd use the Boot Camp Utility to delete the partition and start over again.
I have no idea how you'd install an app under OS X that a Boot Camp XP installation could see-XP doesn't even know that HFS+ exists, so it sees the rest of the drive it's on as "unallocated space."
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Unless you've invested a lot of time and effort into customizing your XP installation and installing lots of apps, I'd use the Boot Camp Utility to delete the partition and start over again.
I did do a little customization, but my main concern is the activation key. I had troubles activating my copy of windows when I installed it and I wish not to do it over again. I guess there are worse things than re-partitioning though. I will do so and return if I have any problems. Thanks for the response!
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If you put off activation until after you've installed ALL the drivers, you should have less of a problem-in fact, XP can probably handle it for you without much (if any) interaction on your part.
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
I have no idea how you'd install an app under OS X that a Boot Camp XP installation could see-XP doesn't even know that HFS+ exists, so it sees the rest of the drive it's on as "unallocated space."
You can't under OS X, but with MacDrive, you can install on the OS X partition from Windows.
Steve
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Interesting. I hadn't thought about that aspect of MacDrive's capability. Still, I think it would be more straightforward to build one's Windows partition large enough for programs to start with.
And it would be really nice if Apple made the Boot Camp instructions clear enough to allow the average user to see that a 5GB partition is the smallest recommended partition, not the only size one can use. 
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