move and resize bootcamp windows 7

[pcpete]

I have started researching and thought I would ask you guys for some pointers. Have any of you had success moving and making larger a windows 7 boot camp to another mac?

 

[johnrobert]

I have not setup Bootcamp for a long time I remember it asked how big I wanted to make partition but once it's done it's done

You could use a Mac partition resizer just like Windows

 

[jfm]

I use Winclone to move a bootcamp partition, you can easily manage it from either an image or clone to a disk and then manage the partition size.
https://www.twocanoes.com/products/mac/winclone
Not 100% sure on the resizing, been a while since I had to do this.

 

[Markverhyden]

What is the purpose of having bootcamp for this customer? Unless they need direct access to the underlying hardware layer it's far less efficient than using a VM.

 

[pcpete]

What is the purpose of having bootcamp for this customer? Unless they need direct access to the underlying hardware layer it's far less efficient than using a VM.

good question, it is just for a single progam, not sure what it is, but he said he does lots of data processing with it. I may have to speak to him about using a vm. We would still have to transfer and resize his bootcamp install to a vm.

 

[Markverhyden]

good question, it is just for a single progam, not sure what it is, but he said he does lots of data processing with it. I may have to speak to him about using a vm. We would still have to transfer and resize his bootcamp install to a vm.

I've not personally done an import from a BC partition. But once you have a VM you can resize a partition as needed with a few mouse clicks. Just did it the other day for a couple of customers that are running Parallels. Windoze has that nasty habit of keeping everything single thing it downloads for updates in the Winsxs folder. Their C drive is 60gb and windsxs was something like 40gb! So as long as it's running you can use an external drive as a landing spot for the .vmdk.

What program? Unless it involves some specialized hardware it's almost guaranteed to work inside a VM. Links below for Parallels and Fusion.

http://kb.parallels.com/en/113658
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/m...nguage=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015088