Camp Tune lets you adjust your Boot Camp partition

Paragon software has made available a pre-release version of Camp Tune, a new utility for resizing your Boot Camp partition without destroying data. While the Leopard version of Disk Utility is now able to perform partition resizing, it is not able to resize a Boot Camp partition without erasing it (although you could back it up and restore it if needed). Camp Tune runs as a bootable Linux-based CD which allows you to boot your Mac and reallocate disk space between your Boot Camp and HFS+ partition.

Camp Tune for Mac is presently in pre-release and is being offered as a free download (registration required). The download is a disk image that must be burned to a CD or DVD. Needless to say, you should have a backup for both partitions before using any software of this sort.

[via Macworld]

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Jon

Give this a try last night, as I had a flatten/reinstall planned anyway. My OS X partition is fine, but my Windows partition, while containing the same amount of data, now comprises a load of meaningless files with gibberish names.

August 11 2008 at 6:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Suter

I would like to point out that their website is inaccurate when it says "Until now there was no possibility to resize the involved partitions". I am a developer for a competitor that has a partitioning product that has been able to resize Boot Camp partitions for some time now.

August 01 2008 at 12:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eli Juicy Jones

It's a great idea, I'm going to give it, and Gparted, a look later when I get home.

July 30 2008 at 5:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hasnun hassan

this looks like a cool software..I should give this a try...
peace..!!

-http://hasnunhassan.com-

July 30 2008 at 3:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bob

it worked great for me!

July 30 2008 at 3:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

meh

Well, their Rescue Kit for OS X does backups and restoration of Mac and Windows partitions.
(ok, a lot more than that, hfs+, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3, etc.)

That was a free download.

July 30 2008 at 2:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

isaaccase

I always used GParted http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

You need to burn it as a cd, but it has always worked well for me.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php (for the live cd)

July 30 2008 at 1:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dave

Exactly. There are other solutions already available (and free, although I'm not sure if Paragon plans on charging for this in the future). Existing solutions have been around a bit longer so they're faster and proven to be reliable.

I just used a Linux CD to re-size a partition on a Dell system and it took only a few minutes (including boot times).

July 30 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zeromaru

There's a very high likelihood that this is based on gParted, in fact I think I remember reading somewhere that the entire thing is Linux-based (though I might be wrong on that one).

August 10 2008 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Coxon

"Needless to say, you should have a backup for both partitions before using any software of this sort." If you are going to back up both partitions, then you may as well just redo the partitions with Disk Manager and then use the backup to put the data back on. Any software like this is, therefore, useless and a waste of money.

July 30 2008 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cabbage

I downloaded it, and decided to go to their forums before going through the process. There was a posting with the following:

"I ran CampTune earlier and it took 1 hour 13 minutes. A lot longer than I had expected. I had 10GB allocated to my Windows partition and upped it to 19GB. After everything was said and done, I rebooted into OSX only to find my Windows partition completely erased. Everything seems fine on the OSX side, but all data is gone from my Windows partition.

Pre-release or not, this isn't ready to be released to the public."

I'm going to hold on it for now. If anyone gets it tested, please post your experience.

July 30 2008 at 1:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Khris

Destined to fail if they plan on charging for it since Winclone works just fine to backup/restore Boot Camp after changing the partition size.

July 30 2008 at 12:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply