How to resize XP - OS X partitions --- SOLVED

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    stonerolling

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    I have a dual boot system 80GB to Windows XP and 30GB to Mac OS X 10.5.6, is there a way to add 10GB more to OS X from the XP partition?
    I have already installed Acronis Disk Director but I can't free space from the XP partition to add it with with a relative program in OS X.
    Are there any ideas out there?
    What combination of programs do you suggest me to use?
    No re installation ideas are acceptable.
     
    stonerolling, Mar 2, 2009
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    Re: How to resize XP - OS X partitions????

    Use Gparted or Gparted in Ubuntu - Easiest way is to download Ubuntu, copy to USB with unetbootin and load "Partition Editor". That will help you shrink the XP partition, and will hopefully let you increase OSX's partition
     
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    Re: How to resize XP - OS X partitions????

    gparted wont resize hfs+ partitions. anyone have any other suggestions? i also tried booting from the inebdeb usb to run disk utility but that didnt work either.
     
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    Re: How to resize XP - OS X partitions????

    I found this in the MSI Wind Forum:

     
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    Re: How to resize XP - OS X partitions????

    The solution for me was:

    - I backed up Windows XP using Acronis True Image in an external HDD
    - I made a boot usb stick from Acronis True Image
    - I made a bootable USB stick using http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ with Ubuntu 8.10 http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
    - I boot with Ubuntu USB stick
    - I start gparted (System - Administration - Partition...)
    - I Delete Windows Partition
    - I Created a new FAT32 Partition
    - I boot to Mac OSX
    - I opened a Terminal and I wrote: sudo diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk0s1 disk0s2
    - I boot to Ubuntu
    - I start gparted and I resize Mac OSX partition to the desired size
    - I Format the new partition to NTFS file system
    - I boot with Acronis True Image USB stick
    - I Restored Windows to the new partition
    - I boot in Mac OSX
    - I edited boot.ini file from windows partition using Text Editor changing "partition(1)" to "partition(2)"
    - Everything is working OK without reinstalling anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Unfotrunately gparted didn't let me to resize windows partition in the 4rth step because of an error in the HDD so that's why I deleted the windows partition.
     
    stonerolling, Mar 9, 2009
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