Clicked Create or Remove a Windows partitionġ1. Clicked I already have….the Windows support software for this Mac.ĩ.

Logged back in and re-opened the Boot Camp Assistant.Ĩ. Removed the Windows partition and allocated all space to the Mac OS X boot partition.ħ. Clicked Create or Remove a Windows partitionĥ. Clicked I already have….the Windows support software for this Mac.Ĥ.

Booted off of the internal Mac OS X boot partition.ģ. Had Winclone do a backup of the Boot Camp partition to the external drive. Waited a bit for the shrinking to complete.ġ3. In the Winclone Tools drop-down menu, I clicked Shrink Windows (NTFS) file system.ġ2. Unchecked all other options (as I wasn’t installing XP or Vista.)ġ0. The other mountable option will not correctly back up a Windows 7 partition.Ĩ. Chose the Use ‘special’ compressed image format that is not mountable, but is smaller and restores faster option. Checked Remove pagefile.sys from source partition prior to imaging to save spaceħ. Unchecked Check for new version at startupĦ. Launched Winclone and opened the Preferences.ĥ. Installed the NTFSProgs Precompiled Binary package:Ĥ. (The external drive had about 250 GBs of free space.)ģ. Set up a external boot drive with a 10.6.7 installation that could boot the user’s laptop. See below the jump to get the procedure I used.ġ. That was the key information I needed and it helped me immeasurably with avoiding the pain of reinstalling Windows 7 again. At least, that’s what my hope was.Īfter some Googling, I happened across this Apple Discussion thread and saw Toocool4‘s post at the bottom of the thread. The venerable tool was no longer being updated, but it could still save my bacon. That’s when I remembered my (possible) savior: Winclone.

Since there’s no easy way I know of to shrink a Windows partition (plenty of options if you want to grow it), I was looking at a multi-hour re-install of Windows 7 which I had just done. I had set up a Boot Camp installation yesterday for a user, who wanted to use it for both dual-booting and so he could use VMWare (using the Boot Camp partition for the VMWare Windows install.) I’d set it for 100 GBs (20%) of the disk and delivered it, but I got a follow-up email from the user asking if the Windows partition could be made smaller (50 GBs).

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