[l008com]

I got a new, and very large windows game for christmas. I went to resize the windows 7 partition on my MacBook Pro, add 30 GB to it so I'd have plenty of space to install this 16 GB game. Well, epic fail.

I did it the most logical way I knew of, which was to backup the windows partition with WinClone. Then I shrank my Mac partition in disk utility. I delete my old, small windows partition.
Then I tried several things. I tried restoring with WinClone, to a non-existant partition, but that didn't work. I tried restoring to a FAT partition, that didn't work. Then I tried using BootCamp assistant to restore the drive to a single mac partition, and then repartition "from scratch". Which worked. Then I again tried to restore from WinClone, but it failed. I am able to mount the winclone image and access the files without any issues. But any way I try to restore, I get nowhere.

Here is my WinClone error log:
Tue Dec 27 00:21:04 EST 2011: Partition is : /dev/disk0s3 Tue Dec 27 00:21:07 E - Pastebin.com

The error doesn't mean anything to me?

[besson3c]

I'd use the GParted boot CD to enlarge your partition, and IIRC there is some Windows 7 CLI command to grow the file system to utilize the full partition once you have changed the partition allocation within GParted. GParted does support NTFS, I've used it on Windows partitions before.

[l008com]

That's not really going to help me now.

[ghporter]

It looks like WinClone thinks Windows didn't shut down properly, which can leave loose ends like unresolved references or double references. That doesn't mean YOU did anything wrong, by the way; Win7 is the cat's pajamas of Windows OSs, but it's still Windows and stuff happens. It won't help now, but I recommend validating backups like this before taking irreversible steps.

I hope you didn't have too much on that partition that will be difficult to replace.

[l008com]

So can't I tell it to just go for it, and see what happens?
As far as replacing my data, the only un-replacable data is my game save data which I can easily access from mounting the "broken" disk image.
Actually installing windows, and my games, is really the most difficult, painful part. That's the part of the process I was really hoping to skip. My save data probably adds up to a total of about 1 MB.

[l008com]

Also, as far as Winclone telling me there may or may not be a windows problem, why would you wait until the restore to tell me that, rather than telling me during imaging. Is there a Winclone replacement yet?