How to change the size of BootCamp-section? (+ Competition)

In 2006, Apple announced Boot Camp - software package that allows you to install the Windows operating system on a Mac. I think that this step greatly helped the company to increase the number of customers. Customers who ranged from OS choice, given the opportunity at any time to "return" in a familiar environment.

Boot Camp is now set for a few applications that are not on the Mac. I think that many hold only for Windows games and legal / accounting software.

However, there is a problem: over time, the free space on BootCamp-section becomes smaller. How to increase it? Standard tools, OSX applications, this possibility does not provide. The instructions to the Boot Camp makes it clear that if you want to increase the size of the partition, then the user has to make backup copies of all documents, delete the current partition and create a new one. In this case, you need to reinstall Windows and applications, as well as their re-adjustment. This is probably the most correct way, but at the same time it is also the most demanding of time. :-)

Search in Google suggested several solutions, one of which does not require payment.

This is about Winclone - a free utility, which can be used to clone a Bootcamp partition-installed Vista or XP. The theory of operation of the program is as follows. You create a clone of the Bootcamp-section and save it on an external drive, then remove the partition with Windows standard tools (Disk Utility). Then you need to create a new partition for Bootcamp desired size. After the partition is created, it is necessary to abandon the Windows installation Boot Camp Assistant. Instead, the user is prompted to restore Windows from a previously created clone. Nothing complicated, just step by step procedure is described in this video:

In practice, it was not so rosy. First, the developer has officially announced the termination of support for the project. Ie, Windows 7 full support, and we can not wait longer. The forums there are messages from users that speak about the problems with Windows-based partition recovery. Finally, it was impossible at the time of writing this post Winclone download from the official website - link Download the user receives a 404 error (File not found).

Then came the turn to try a commercial application - CampTune 8 for Mac ($19,95). This bootable CD. After you download the image from the site it is necessary to burn it. It is better to use Disk Utility (press the Burn button on the toolbar, select the image, and then written to disk). It remains to boot from the drive (to do during boot hold C) and in the dialog box to redistribute the disk space between partitions. It looks something like this:

CampTune running reliably, I have anyway no problems. If you are at least sometimes face the problem of redistributing space between partitions, look at this program. The developer, the Paragon company, has provided readers MacRadar five licenses CampTune 8. To participate in the raffle zafollovte Twitter @macradar, Retweet this messages and a link to a tweet publish comments on this post. The random number generator determines the winner. The names of winners will be announced on Saturday. Participate and win :-).

update. The winners: Alex, noraleks, knyshev.viktor, Ovcharov Sergey and Dmitry. The licenses will be sent to you on Monday :)