[dsstrbd]

hello everyone.. i have a MBP with 40gigs for the OSX and 560gigs for running Win 7 via bootcamp. my question is.. can i repartiton part of the bootcamp drive to go back into the OSX partition? and how if it possible? basicly wanting to take 200gigs away from the Win7 partition and add that space to OSX drive.

thanks.

[Waragainstsleep]

I don't know of a way I would trust. Sorry.

[P]

You can run an app such as Partition Magic (Symantec used to sell it, not sure if they still do) or similar to resize the Windows partition smaller and then use this trick to resize the HFS+ partition bigger, but I really don't recommend it. Back up everything, reformat and restore. It's a pain to do, but the problems from a botched repartitioning are worse.

[ghporter]

"On the fly" partitioning with both OS X and Windows partitions is a Very Bad Idea. Way too many ways for it to go horribly wrong. As P says, back up everything, reformat the whole drive, then restore-first the OS X partition, then use Boot Camp to make a new, smaller Windows partition.

Oh, and I'm going to move this thread to the Alternative OS forum, where everything relating to Boot Camp belongs.