Safe Partition Size For Boot Camp On Mac

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Boot Camp Assistant User Guide

You must use Boot Camp Assistant to remove Windows, or a partition that was created with Boot Camp Assistant, from your Mac.

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Safe Partition Size For Boot Camp On Mac

WARNING: Do not use any other utilities to remove Windows or a partition that was created with Boot Camp.

Safe Partition Size For Boot Camp On MacSafe

  1. Start up your Mac in macOS.

  2. Back up all important data stored on your Windows partition before you remove Windows.

    WARNING: When Windows is removed, the Windows partition—as well as all data stored in the partition—will be erased permanently.

  3. Quit all open apps and log out any other users.

  4. Open Boot Camp Assistant , then click Continue.

  5. If the Select Tasks step appears, select “Remove Windows 10 or later version,” then click Continue.

  6. Do one of the following:

    • If your Mac has a single internal disk, click Restore.

    • If your Mac has multiple internal disks, select the Windows disk, select “Restore disk to a single macOS partition,” then click Continue.

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WinClone should be able to do this but it might not do it the way you want.

Adjust Boot Camp Partition Size


I have used WinClone to backup an existing smaller Boot Camp partition on one Mac and then restore it on a larger new Mac with a larger Boot Camp partition. Normally it would restore as the same size as the original but WinClone does let you expand during the restore.


What it does not do is do this in situ. You could of course use WinClone to backup and restore to the same Mac but restore to a bigger partition.


To do it in situ you need a different tool called CampTune. See - https://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/


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Note: Boot Camp Assistant would also not do what you want. It can only change the size by completely deleting the existing one and then creating a new differently sized one.