I think (but not sure) you can do this without loosing any data using BootCamp Assistant, but if not - you can use WinClone for that purpose.ģ) Install NTFS-3G and MacFUSE (to have read/write access to the NTSF volumes while boot in Mac OSX).
#IPARTITION DEMO MAC OSX#
If you have Windows already installed you probably need to rearrange space between Mac OSX and BOOTCAMP volumes, because you can cut necessary space for the new volumes only from your Mac OSX volume, not from BOOTCAMP volume. You can make additional volumes by cutting necessary space from your Mac OSX volume, not from BOOTCAMP volume.ġ) First create BootCamp partition of necessary size using BootCamp Assistant.Ģ) Install Windows, BootCamp drivers for Windows and updates. But do not use any Windows partition managers. I did that on my MB 13' mid 2006 with MacOSX 10.5 Leo and WinXP. It is possible to have at least one HFS volume and two NTFS (or FAT 32) volumes. Some partition managers will allow you to create more than 4 partitions but if you create any, you'll only make the drive unreadable by other partition managers. Although a GPT drive supports up to 128 partitions, almost no currently available partition manager seems to be aware of this, so you'll be restricted to the usual 4 partitions - EFI, HFS (for OS-X), NTFS (for Windows) and FAT32 (for your shared data). Bear these points in mind though:-ġ) Create your new partition using iPartition, then format it with a Windows utility.Ģ) Format it for FAT32 (NTFS is read-only when mounted by OS-X, IIRC).ģ) It's very unlikely that you'll be able to create more than one extra partition. But apart from those issues it works exceptionally well. And it's not entirely great at formatting Windows partitions. And also, you can't run it from your Mac's hard drive (it has to be burnt onto a separate boot DVD). It has its drawbacks:- the demo version doesn't allow you to commit any changes IIRC. You'll need to use a product called iPartition, from Coriolis:. All the ones I've tried so far have caused big problems due to the fact that Apple's implementation of GPT (the partitioning scheme that's probably used by your MacBook Pro) is slightly customised and not the standard GPT scheme. Above all, do NOT use a Windows partition manager for this task. There certainly can be side effects but not if you use the right tools.
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