Reader Richard Lanier has a Windows issue—no, not that issue, but rather one involving size. He writes: I’m running Windows 7 in a Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro.

Question: Q: switch between windows 10 & OS on mac book pro More Less Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Jan 20, 2011  Question: Q: Boot Camp, How to switch back to Mac OS X from Windows? I successfully installed boot camp and Vista on my imac so I could watch netflix on my computer (other than that I have no use or patience for Vista or Windows). Now, I am in Windows Vista and am unable to.

When I first configured Boot Camp I underestimated how much I’d use Windows and I’m now running out of space. How can I expand the size of the Boot Camp partition? Vlc mdia player for mac. Let’s start by taking a look at a couple of tools that provide the means to a larger partition. The easiest is Paragon’s $20 (pictured above). Pages for mac export to word. What makes it so easy is that you tell Camptune the size you’d like your partition to be and, provided there’s enough free space on your Mac partition to give up some for Boot Camp, it takes care of the rest.

I ran it last week on my MacBook Pro’s Boot Camp partition and after 20 minutes or so, my partition was increased from 30 to 40GB. Easy though it may be, it’s always a good idea to have a backup of your Boot Camp partition before doing something like this.

And for that backup the best tool around is Twocanoes’ $20. Earlier versions of WinClone are not compatible with Apple’s latest operating system so while it may have been free once, it’s now something you must pungle up for.

Those familiar with Winclone are aware that with its help you can create a larger Boot Camp partition without losing your original Windows data. The process involves creating an image of the partition for safe keeping, deleting the original Boot Camp partition with Disk Utility, creating a new, more expansive partition; and then moving the data from the imaged partition to the new one with WinClone. Twocanoes in 25 steps. Each has its advantages. Camptune requires far less work, but if your Windows data isn’t backed up in some other way, you face the small risk of losing data if something goes wrong.

The Winclone way is more involved, but it’s safer. Before leaving the subject, allow me to offer one other suggestion. Consider running Boot Camp under virtualization. Both allow you to import your Boot Camp partition into one of their virtual machines.

Once you do this, you can resize their partitions. (Just to be clear, we’re not talking about the physical Boot Camp partition that you started with, but rather one you’ve imported into the virtualization application.) If you have a Mac made in the last few years you’ll find running Windows under virtualization as pleasant an experience as Windows can provide—particularly if you devote more than one processor to it. It saves you from the bother of rebooting to use Windows and, of course, it’s completely cool to be able to copy files between your Mac and Windows environments.

Get access to a Mac. Like anything else, you will better understand how to support a platform if you have a chance to use said platform. The more opportunity you get to work in the Mac paradigm, the easier it will be for you to understand how things work and how to fix them. Consider this parallel: all your working life you've fixed refrigerators. You understand refrigerators, you know the theory behind how they work, you know their quirks. Does that qualify you to be a dishwasher specialist?