Partitioning

[sniper13]

Ok, so I have dual-booted Mac OS X, with Windows Vista, Windows XP Home and Pro. I have got all the drivers working excluding Bluetooth only. Just letting you guys know incase you have questions on Vista and XP installs :)

Ok, so here are my questions:
1. I know that BootCamp partitions the drives so that Windows XP has one and Mac OS X has one. You choose your space at that time. Well, say you wanted more space and didn't realize then. I have tried numerous ways but I couldn't find out how. The only way that works is for you to remove and reinstall XP or Vista with the changed space. Probably not, just wondering.
SORRY, THIS WAS ALREADY ANSWERED. MY APOLIGIES GO ON TO NUMBER 2 PLS. :)
2. How do I change the brightness of my screen. I couldn't find it in system control panel or system files. The only way I've gotten the file is that I extracted the drivers (I knew how to do this cause of experiences from Vista, anybody who needs to know how just ask :) ) and gotten the brightness tool. When in XP when I'm changing my screen brightness it sometimes crashes my Mac which is odd. I seriously just drag the bar down and it crashes. I've had to do other methods which take too long to explain so it wouldn't crash. Anybody got an alternative?

[Paul2660]

I don't believe there is not a way to resize the drives after you have made the initial sizes under Boot Camp.

I had hoped that partition magic would work on the XP drive I created so I could make 2 drivers under XP, a logical under the physical, however partition magic doesn't like the EFI hard drive and can't work. It would be very nice to allow this.

I know that much has been posted on creating 2 sep drives while in Boot camp, one for XP and one for Linux and using the Linux drive as a 2nd drive for XP. To be honest a tad more than I wanted to do, and more command line than I wanted. But if you search under the Boot Camp forum there is very detailed post on this. You would have to go back to the begining to do it.

On the 2nd question, brightness, you have two options I know of, I didn't see what machine you have I have a Macbook pro. On the boot camp drivers for the MBP:

By default, there is an Apple brightness.exe that loads under Windows==system32 You can manually click on this. It will launch a small icon into the Systray, (lower right corner of your machine) that looks like a LCD. By single clicking you can bring up a tool that will control the brightness. You are correct that unless you do this, the machine under XP will always come up at the brightest setting. NOTE, on my MBP, about 25% of the time this is launched, the machine will either freeze or reboot, both situations cause a total failure of the XP environment until you reboot. By default however unless you have taken it out of startup, this should be loading everytime you boot.

Also you can download the keyboard remapping software that is posted on under the boot camp forum located here:
http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1740, note it will not work currently with Vista. IMO this single package is one of the best "shareware" tools out there for the Macbookpro, Macbook that I have seen. Check out the post and see if it will work.

Paul C.

[sniper13]

I have a iMac. I can't find it in my system folder. I have extracted the fiels to get the brightness tool. Works fine if I click on a randomn spot on the meter but if I drag then it crashes my system. It's very odd :(

[Paul2660]

Yes, I agree,it's very odd and I am still amazed more compliants have not been Voiced. You might email the author of the tool I mentioned in the previous post. I don't see why his tool wouldn't work on the imac, as if it will you will be very happy.

Paul C.