Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Extend or Resize Boot Camp Partition

http://guides.macrumors.com/Extend/Resize_Boot_Camp_Partition

Paragon CampTune Paragon CampTune is a commercial product that is designed expressly for this task. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/ It consists of a downloadable ISO that needs to be burned to a disc and booted from in order to resize the partitions. During testing it was available free, but now costs US$19.95. MR user Rodus reports that it damaged their OS X partiton and a reinstall was required, so heed the warning and have a backup. [edit] GParted Live GParted Live is similar to CampTune as it is also distributed as a bootable image that needs to be copied to a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. As free and open source software, distributed under the GPL, it will always be available free. Since it has more functions than CampTune, it may be harder for folks who are not as experienced with partitioning hard drives. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ [edit] iPartition Coriolis Systems' iPartition is a £29.95 ($44.95 US) utility that runs in Mac OS X and allows resizing of all of the relevant partition formats, including HFS+, FAT32, and NTFS. It provides a Mac-oriented user interface that may be easier to manage than some of the free utilities. As it is not capable of resizing the boot disk, it requires a bootable external disk or a boot DVD. (A tool to create a boot DVD is included.) [edit] Paragon Partition Manager From the makes of CampTune is a commercial tool that is similar in functionality to GParted Live, but has a more polished/friendly user interface than GParted Live. Previously only the US$79.95 Professional version supported all the features required for this, but as of version 11 the US$39.95 Personal version has also been reported to work. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-personal/ [edit] Winclone/Disk Utility Winclone is a free tool for creating and restoring backup images of your Windows partition. One of its key features is that it can restore to a larger partition than the one the image was created from. NOTE: Winclone has been discontinued, but for now remains available and capable of completing these tasks (including creating and restoring Windows 7 images). Winclone updated to support Lion Winclone updates and download Disk Utility can resize HFS+ (Mac OS) partitions, but is currently incapable of resizing NTFS partitions, so you could use it to reduce the size of the HFS+ partition and create a new larger placeholder MS-DOS (FAT) partition The full process would be: Backup Windows partition with Winclone. (if the new Windows partition is smaller than the old one make sure you set the preferences in Winclone to save the image as an uncompressed dmg) Resize Mac OS (HFS+) partition Delete old Windows partition Create new Windows partition as MS-DOS (FAT) in free space after Mac OS partition. (If the new Windows partition is smaller than the old one an additional step is required: shrink the filesystem on the image by selecting Tools->Shrink Windows (NTFS) Filesystem) Restore Winclone partition over new Windows partition An alternate Winclone based process is described in the External Guides section [edit] Native OS utilities MR user Kazyua reports that you can use the disk management utilities provided with the current operating systems if you want to do it manually. Windows 7 and OS X both have partition resizing functions built in. In OS X, open Disk Utility and manually shrink the mac HFS+ partition by dragging the lower right corner. Then in windows go to the start menu and type "disk management" into the search box then hit enter. You should get an overview of the drives you have and the individual partitions. Right-clicking on the partition gives an "Extend Volume" option. The Windows NTFS volume should then be extended into the free space you created with Disk Utility. This method has not worked for other users, so try at your own risk. [edit] Resizing under VMWare Fusion If you are looking to allocate more space to Windows under VMWare please refer to the following thread http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=828182 [edit] External Guides http://dustyreagan.com/how-to-increase-or-decrease-your-boot-camp-partition/

Sunday, October 2, 2011

SamsungDive

http://www.samsungdive.com/

Since a smart mobile contains a lot of data including personal information, your personal information may be compromised if you lose it. The SamsungDive service enables you to minimize the possibility of your personal information becoming public using the remote locking and remote wipe-out functions when you lose your mobile. In addition, you can find the location of your lost mobile using the Find My Mobile function. You can use the SamsungDive service as follows.

http://v2.samsungdive.com/help/guideRemoteControls.do 

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