my brother recently passed his white macbook on to me. before doing so he installed a new 250 GB hard drive. he divided the hard drive into two partitions – one for Mac OS leopard and one for windows 7. i use windows for office only and Mac OS is my primary operating system. my brother however only gave 50 GB for the leopard partition and 200 GB for windows. i now have about 170 GB of unused disk space that i would like to redistribute so that the leopard drive has 190 GB in total and the windows drive 60 GB in total. i’m hoping not to have to reinstall everything and not lose any data in the process.
HELP!! anyone?
Leopard’s Disk Utility can resize partitions easily if the start of the partition does not move. In your case, however, it appears the start of the Windows partition would move, so you’d have to image that partition, save that off somewhere, and then re-create the partition and restore Windows to it.
To resize, go to Disk Utility, click on the hard drive on the left and Partition on the right, and then resize the partitions in the graphic. Again, if you change the start of a volume, you’re going to lose data (it may not even let you do it).