![]() Obviously the primary and Boot Camp partitions are still in tact, but their contents aren't. That being said, let's assume some nasty software glitch makes my entire internal drive unusable. I'm hoping that my memory isn't that awful when I recall that Disk Utility addresses a 2nd, or nth, partition as a separate drive. so thanks in advance.ġ) when SuperDuper clones my internal hard drive, does it just skip over the Boot Camp partition and pretend it's not there? and the same question in reverse, that is, when SD restores my internal hard drive, does it just skip over the Boot Camp partition and just leave it alone? I think the answer to both is "yes" because SD would consider each partition a separate drive.Ģ) do you endorse my proposed approach to use Disk Utility to just create a disk image of the Boot Camp partition?ģ) I apologize for the following seemingly dumb question, but the truth is that it's been like-forever since I've partitioned any drive, internal or external (with large HDs being so inexpensive). it's just that I'm trying to ask very exact questions. ![]() Any partition solution is likely to work since it's not exactly rocket science.Dave, I apologize for the length of this reply. Safety and Security is not something you trust blindly, it's something you achieve, in terms of partition resizing you achieve that by backing up first, not by throwing money at it.īut I'll shut up now, and let others suggest you the extortionware you are eager to pay.īut chances are that the more technical savvy users will feel gparted is perfectly up to the task, only the less technical ones will suggest what you want to hear but those ones likely blindly bought a resizing product that happened to work once and will swear by its reliability. If it's a virtual one, you can just bloody clone the machine first for safety and then use whichever tool that does parting, if anything goes wrong you always have the backup. It's easier to backup the partition (using something like winclone), delete the partition in OSX, and create a new one with Boot Camp Assistant, then restore to the new one. ![]() If it is a Boot Camp partition resizing it is tricky because very little software out there can resize HFS+ (OSX). It's your loss, it's your 100, the fool and his money are easily (G)parted.īesides, you should specify here that if this is a Boot Camp partition or a virtual hd. Look, Gparted (and Winclone) have been used reliably by thousands of users including me that can atest for their reliability. MacFuse? Where did I hear this name before? Oh, I know, it's what PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC uses to write to NTFS (Windows partitions).Īnd if you're so concerned that you'll lose your data you can clone your NTFS partition first using Winclone, oh, wait, it's free also it can't be trusted. FreeBSD? That's what Apple uses for Darwin, the backbone of OSX. Webkit? That's what Apple uses for Safari. 'Oh but's it's commercial, it's someone we can sue if something goes wrong', no, if you read their EULAs, you're on your own.Īnd it's not freeware, it's opensource, like Linux, FreeBSD, WebKit or MacFuse. Altho you then might have to reinstall windows before you can restore the files themself. Nothing guarantees you that the 'commercial' product you're going to buy doesn't mess your data. You, Sir, are an easy target for extortion. Gparted livecd isn't installed in Windows, so there isn't a need for it to support any specific variation of windows (server or desktop, xp or vista, 32 bit or 63 bit, etc). Which are the filesystems it supports and the operations it supports for each one of them (it supports all operations for NTFS). ![]() The lack of Windows Server support from some of these commercial solutions is just 'defective by design'.Īs for gparted since it's an opensource solution, they have nothing to gain from making such distinction and so, all you need to know about gparted is this: And if you're running a server you should know that, but maybe, as you say, you need help from another person, maybe someone that will offer you product with a shiny sticker on it that says "and for just $100 more you can get Windows Server support!!" *snort*. What it needs to support is NTFS and FAT and gparted does, that 'server system support' crap (escuse me my french) is just marketing of commercial products to make you pay more.Īt the filesystem level in the Windows world server or desktop they are all the same, NTFS (or FAT).
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