Win7 is sitting on 57gb of the drive. I squished it to 32 in windows, so that windows sees itself as occupying less space. Can not get it into the meager 6gb of free space in the OSX partition as virtual machine. Still takes up space.
Disk tools does not allow resizing BC partitions, so I have to use BC to make the change. Wipe the BC partition and restore into VM on the now single partition OSX SL would be my choice. Not able to find a way to make that transfer yet. I did have one of those bright flashes of insight as I fell asleep though. I could pull the drive from the macbook, install it in my mac pro, and then mess about, since it will not the a running boot drive, but just another drive. I have more than enough space on internal drives to make a disk image. Then I could resize the 80gb to all mac, and recover the dmg to a parallels VM. Sound right, or have I missed something? clay On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Brian Toscano wrote: > You could use disk utility in Mac OS X to resize the partition. > > If it won't let you, then you could clone the existing Mac OS X partition > to the free space between the existing partition windows and Mac OS X > partition, blow away the existing Mac OS X partition, and resize the newer > one to the rest of the disk space. (depending on how the partitioning was > done). > > If you have an 80GB drive I imagine this is an older laptop, now sure how > well virtualization would work. It is XP ? > > It is possible to use Vmware Fusion to migrate the Boot Camp windows to a > virtual machine. In which case you could dedicate the entire drive to Mac > OS X and the VM of Windows just sits as files on your Mac partition. > > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> clay monroe wrote: >> >>> Now I need to repartition the thing so I can use OSX, but I do >>> not want to lose the winblows. Need winblows so I can use the >>> EPS and the manuals on CD. Anybody have good ideas? >> >> Virtualbox. >> >> Or VMWare. >> >> -- Philip >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
