Few weeks ago I faced a problem of disk space shortage when I needed to install the space-consuming MATLAB in my Mac’s Boot Camp Windows. As I checked out the free space available in the Boot Camp partition, oops, there remained only few hundreds MB. Oh no, I seriously don’t like all the troubles of backing up all data and reinstall everything from A to Z after readjusting the Boot Camp partition size. It seems I have to get through all these huh? If you have the same concern as mine, read on. Here’s a solution that can save you all the troubles. First spend a few seconds on Google to find your saviour, the Winclone.

Boot Camp Assistant guides you through installing Windows on your Mac. Open this app from the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder. Then follow the onscreen instructions to repartition your startup disk and download related software drivers for Windows. Better performance on bootcamp, better mouse support (I use death adder razer mouse and its buggy on the mac side) and additional access to games that the mac side doesnt have. I would love to play those games on the mac but until the performance is close, I am sticking to bootcamp for gaming.

Download and install it. You can start your backup, repartition, and restoration in ease right away. Wait a minute, check out what is your Windows filesystem before you leap. If it’s is FAT32, then you need to first convert it to NTFS before you can increase the size of your Windows partition. Otherwise no matter how much larger you’ve resized your partition, it will just shrink to match the size of your original partition. How to convert FAT32 to NTFS? • In Windows, first go to My Computer and choose the drive you wish to convert.

Right click on the drive icon and go to Properties. Make sure you know the drive letter (such as ‘C’ for C drive) and the drive’s volume label. • Go to Start> Run and type cmd and click OK. The command prompt will appear. • In command prompt, type convert [ drive letter]: /fs:ntfs (for example, convert C: /fs:ntfs).

• Next you’ll be prompted to key in the volume label for your drive. (Don’t type Alliraph, that’s my drive’s volume label, not yours.) • You’ll be asked to if you would like to force a dismount on the drive ( Y/N). Type Y and press Enter. • Since the drive contains the operating system, conversion cannot be done immediately. Type Y and press Enter again so that the conversion will be scheduled the next time the system restarts.

Weather for present location in ical mac os sierra. • Now reboot your Windows and let your computer take over the job. You can go have a cup of coffee while the filesystem is being converted. • The conversion is done.

You may want to confirm it by going to the drive’s Properties again. You should see the filesystem is now NTFS.

Hi- Because I was running out of space on my Windows partition, I searched for a solution can came upon your post. I followed your instructions to the end, but it didn’t work.

Using Winclone, I created a copy of my Windows partition, then used Boot Camp Assistant to delete it and create a larger partition. When I tried restoring it in Winclone, it said errors had occurred. I tried redoing this last part of the process a few times, but its still not successful, and my Windows is completely gone. Now I fear I will have to re-install Windows and re-configure it to my school’s system, which will taken a long time. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do before taking that step. By the way, here’s the end part of the error message: “/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/ntfsclone” -f -f -O “/dev/disk0s3” /dev/disk1 1>&2 ntfsclone v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0) ERROR(22): Opening ‘/dev/disk1’ as NTFS failed: Invalid argument Apparently device ‘/dev/disk1’ doesn’t have a valid NTFS. Maybe you selected the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g.