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Create, use, and share multiple Boot Camp partitions
Authored by: mareanegra on Apr 13, '09 11:41:11AM

Hi!
thanks for the post it's technically good. It helps me to understand how the boot works in my macbook.

I have tested your "Possible Free Solution" to resize the windows partition and works fine. My test it's not exactly the same but I think that it is close enought.

Initially I changed partition sizes from 225GB-5GB to 220-10 (MAC-WIN) with gparted starting with an ubuntu 8.10 live cd (magic parted OS is based in gparted and I tried the same with MP later and also works). after boot from this cd made the change with it. in the first step I reduced the big one and finally grow the second. the second step takes a while to redistribute the data). In the magic parted sesion I changed succesfully the unnamed label for windows partition to "jindousequispe" :p

After this windows partition was unable to boot, it was invisible to bootcamp (at boot time and running MAC OSX). the problem was the MBR.

booting from rEFIt live cd, selecting mbr option, it said that windows partition was a basic data one. I permitted the program rewrite MBR with it own sugerence (change the windows partition to a NTLD NTFS one), and after this the system works fine again with booting from both partitions, from boot camp menus and at boot time (start holding the alt key and selecting the windows disk).

thanks again.





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