Can i allocate more space to bootcamp

There is at least one other app that is supposed to but the name escapes me. FWIW, it's always dangerous to resize partitions that have data on them so good backups should be mandatory. Page content loaded. Dec 27, PM in response to larry78p In response to larry78p. Dec 27, PM. Dec 27, PM in response to osbor In response to osbor. I have followed your step by step procedure to resize my Mac BootCamp partition and successfully make it happen without any additional difficulty.

Thanks Osbor for your helpful suggestion. Dec 27, PM in response to dialabrain In response to dialabrain. More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Skip to content Android Windows Linux Apple. Home » Windows. See also How do I make my screen brighter than the Max Windows 10? Like this post? There is a way to resize the partition of Windows Boot Camp without erasing the Windows operating system.

Step 3. From the available results, click on Disk Utility to launch the same. Select the Partition from the top menu. Step 4. Once Partition is clicked, it will show all partitions and sizes available on your Mac machine. It didn't seem to give an option to not install it, and I had to delete it later. Launch MiniTool and load the Partition Manager.

Find the Bootcamp partition that is too large. Resize the partition down to the size you want. If you place the new partition at the end, you won't be able to use the freed space to expand the MacOS partition later. Click Save to return to the main screen, the click Apply at the top left corner. A box will pop up telling you that you need to reboot to apply the changes. Reboot to apply the changes. MiniTool will apply the changes. It might reboot again - be sure to go back into Windows.

Create a new partition from the unallocated space Boot into Windows partition if not already there. Open MiniTool once again and go to the Partition Manager.

Your new unallocated space should appear before the BootCamp partition. Select the new unallocated space, right-click, and choose Create to create a new partition. If you don't create a partition here, MacOS doesn't seem to be able to find the unallocated space.

Save and Apply the changes again. A reboot shouldn't be required. Reboot into MacOS. Open Disk Utility. You should see the new partition just after the container holding your main Macintosh HD but still within your disk. Select the new volume you just created the one that should be merged into the existing MacOS volume.

Click the "-" button below the pie chart. This will expand the MacOS partition to include the newly created partition. Your MacOS disk should now be larger. This worked for me to expand the Windows partition going the opposite direction , I just needed to reformat the partition as NTFS. You have to use a partition utility like GParted. Then you have three chances: Install a partition edition software on your Mac.

I'm not a mac user, so I can only give you one example, Disk Utility , which I believe it is included in mac distros. You can check this discussion to find more examples.

All I could find on google was comercial software, but as I said, I'm not a mac expert, so there may be a GParted port around or something like that. In order to use thid method you will check how to boot using a CD on mac , which is a different topic.

There are plenty around, like this one.