Partition size wrong after shrink with Winclone - cannot boot Bootcamp.
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Hi all,
I bought Winclone in order to move my Bootcamp (Win7) to a new disk along with my Mac OS X 10.7.4. My first step was to shrink the partition using Winclone. Before the shrink it was 157.29GB. After the shrink Winclone shows the Partition size as 58.08GB.
So far so good ...
But when I check the shrinked Windows partion in the Mac OS Disk Utility IT STILL SHOWS 157.29GB. When trying to boot from it I get a blue scree first and then an error screen telling me that "The Windows boot configuration data (BCD) store file contains some invalid information".
When trying to shrink or grow the partition again with Winclone it tells me that the partition is corrupt ...
Please anybody save me ...
Best regards
Wolfgang -
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Hi Tim,
I followed exactly these. As said I used Winclones "Shrink" function and the result was that the partition size was shown different in Winclone and in the Disk Utility.
However. There is one positive update. Yesterday I worked with the shrinked Partition on the disk that meanwhile was moved into an external USB drive.
Today I did move the disk back into the Mac and then Winclone was able to "unshrink" (or whatever this is called) the Bootcamp partition. After that it showed the correct size in Winclone and I was able to boot Win7 again. So I am back to the beginning. (At least nothing is lost).
I still would be interested why the shrink didn't work.
regards
Wolfgang -
Winclone will shrink the filesystem but not the partition size. You have to use disk utility to delete the Windows partition, resize the Mac partition, then create a new Windows partition. Then when you restore the Winclone image, it will expand the filesystem to take up the entire partition size.
tim -
erm ... I have to admit that I am confused now.
I have a (working) Bootcamp partition. I use Winclone's "Shrink" on this partition. After the shrinking the Bootcamp partition DOESN'T BOOT ANYMORE because patition size and filesystem size are diffferent ...
Is that what you are telling me?
regards
Wolfgang -
The shrink option is to shrink the filesystem, then make a winclone image of it. You can then delete and restore the partition with disk utility, creating it the size you want. Then you restore the image.
Winclone doesn't do dynamic resizing of the bootcamp partition. To do that, you'll need something like iPartition.
From the link above:
"Winclone allows you to resize your Bootcamp partition. This process consists of shrinking the size of the current bootcamp partition, creating an image of the current bootcamp partition, deleting the current partition, creating a new partition with a new size, then restoring the Winclone image." -
Hey Tim,
I have two last comments:
1. I shrank the filesystem, made a winclone image of it and restored it on a new disk with a bigger partition and it didn't boot (which didn't surprise me as - as mentionend above - the shrunk original partition also didn't boot anymore).
2. " ... This process consists of shrinking the size of the current bootcamp partition, ..." - You mentioned two posts above that it only shrinks the filesystem and not the partition?
Probably I totally misunderstood what this tool does and what not.
Thanks
Wolfgang
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