CampTune X Beta

[Paragon_MA]

Paragon Software proudly starts CampTune X Beta testing.

Beta Product information:

Web site: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptunex-beta/

Reviewer's guide: http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/CampTune_rg_en.pdf

In case you have any problems with registering or installing the product and you can’t review it, please contact us at beta-test@paragon-software.com
We will be glad to assist you.

Thank you for your participation - We'll look forward to your feedback!

Beta Testers evaluating Camptune X Beta, please review and answer the following questions, after you complete the tests of the software.

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes
b. No. (If No: please send us the log files and describe your problem shortly)

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes
b. No.( If No: please describe the stage that caused major problems for you and what improvements you suggest)

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes
b. No. (If No: please describe the confusing dialogs, or send screenshot based examples)

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes. If Yes: please describe features you want to have in the next version.
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes. (If yes, what else would you like this solution to do, extended tasks such as creating a partition for Windows, ability to backup and restore Windows partition, support of complex configurations, etc?)
b. No. It is good already and complete.

[mac_endevor]

Hello Paragon.

I do not have Boot Camp configuration, thus I can't give you reasonable answers for question listed in your post.

However, I've installed native version of CamTune to see how far it's behind your previous attempts. Surely, native software is good step forward, but I'd like to mention a number of issues I met:

- After registration I received email with "Product Key" and "Serial Number". However CampTune X asked me to enter "Name" and "Serial".

- The program uses worst fonts I've ever seen.

P.S. Image shown when there is no Windows OS - excellent trolling :)

[Mephist]

Hello mac_endevor,

Thanks for you reply.
We'll fix incorrect names of key and serial in Camptune and find better fonts!

[davidst95]

Hi,

I also can't get past the part where it asks to enter your name and serial number. I used the serial number that was sent in the email. I'm looking forward to testing the new version of CampTune X. Thanks.

David

[Velociraptor73]

1-A
2-A
3-A
4-A - Advanced user mode with possibility to see and edit all the partitions on disk, not only Boot Camp.
5-A - Yes, Bootcamp partition copy for backup or migration to other disks.

I must say the way it is now (Beta version 1.0) it is a very simply, efficient and idiot proof application that does perfectly what is suppose to, without issues.

[Velociraptor73]

For those having problems passing the registration screen, just use the provided key inplace of your name. That should do it.

[mrplow]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes


4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. It is good already and complete.

[NintendoToad]

Yes to all, except for what has already been mentioned. That is, the fonts could be better, and the Name should be product key. Also, on the page where I put in my key, the header "Registration" is a little off. But that's it. It does everything it should. :D

[IvanC]

Just tried it and have problems:

I had two partitions:
MACOSX 215GB, 45GB free
BOOTCAMP 40GB

I tried to resize them, relocating 20GB from the MACOSX partition to the BOOTCAMP one.

The process failed and logs were sent (my mail is icarri at gmail.com)

After that i have some problems:

MACOSX partition new size is 195GB with 25GB free (so the 20GB are missing and nowhere to be found)
BOOTCAMP partition size is still 40GB and while i can access to it and read/write, windows no longer start in VMWare, returning the error:

Cannot open the disk '/Users/Icarri/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/Boot Camp.vmwarevm/Boot Camp.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Reason: The partition table on the physical disk has changed since the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual machine, then add it again.

How can i recover those 20GB missing?
How can i make the bootcamp partition bootable again?


UPDATE: Using the disk utility i see the space unallocated there, and can assign it back to the macosx partition (i haven't yet, i prefer to wait for your answer).

[IvanC]

Second update:

I answered myself:

- How can i recover those 20GB missing?

I just expanded the MACOSX partition to take that free space using Disk Utility.

- How can i make the bootcamp partition bootable again in VMWare?

I did a google search and found how to recover the bootcamp partition in VMWare. Just had to delete the virtual machine and let VMWare to create it again. It doesn't affect at all the bootcamp partition data, it's a safe process.

Then i tried the process again and it worked fine, doing exactly the same, so i don't know what did it happen the first time. I suspect it might be related to admin rights, as the first time i ran camptune i was asked twice for the admin password, first when running the app, then again when doing the resizing process. The second and successful time, i was asked for the admin pass only when running camptune, but not when resizing.

Anyway problems solved and camptune worked fine this second time, my partitions are resized and both OSX Lion and windows 7 work fine.

[Velociraptor73]

That's why I think CampTune could take advantage of an advanced user mode, that could locate and edit this free spaces as I had a similar problem and had to use another application to allocate the free space partition I had created before to enlarge BootCamp disk. Resizing BootCamp disk in CampTune only took disk space from OSX partition without even showing the free space partition that remained the same.

[Mephist]

Hello IvanC,

HFS+ resize didn't work as expected in you case. You can resize you HFS+ volume up using Disk Utility, it's totally safe.
Unfortunately, current version of log saver doesn't collect all required information to discover your issue. We will update log saver to diagnose and fix this problem ASAP.

For everybody in this thread: if you've faced this issue, please provide us with "sudo dmesg" terminal output:
Open Terminal Utility (Applications-Utilities-Terminal), type in "sudo dmesg" (without quotes), press Enter and type in your password.
Thanks!

[Kludge]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
c. No then yes.
It locked up my MacBook Pro the first time I tried using it. I had to hard boot (power off) and then the process worked perfectly other than being unclear that it was done.

2. Was the process intuitive?
c. Kinda sorta.
I didn't realize how much free space I had until I tried moving the bar all the way over. It would be helpful to indicate used space with another color like red and some text describing the amount.

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
b. No.
The checking partition status indicators don't animate. This makes it appear that the app has crashed.
In addition when the process was done there was no success indicator.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.
As I mentioned it should indicating free space.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes.
It would be awesome if it could handle creating Boot Camp partitions itself and most of all if it could do so on external drives.

[Velociraptor73]

Last login: Sat Oct 22 07:55:19 on console
Daniels-MacBook-Pro:~ danieldelaunay$ sudu dmesg
-bash: sudu: command not found
Daniels-MacBook-Pro:~ danieldelaunay$ sudo dmesg

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
vm_page_bootstrap: 941500 free pages and 33348 wired pages
kext submap [0xffffff7f8072e000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff800072e000]
zone leak detection enabled
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
mig_table_max_displ = 73
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers
IOAPIC: Version 0x11 Vectors 64:87
ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000
[ PCI configuration begin ]
console relocated to 0xf20010000
PCI configuration changed (bridge=6 device=3 cardbus=0)
[ PCI configuration end, bridges 7 devices 19 ]
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 21:08:10 Aug 9 2011) initialization complete
FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 34159efffe008308; max speed s800.
mbinit: done [64 MB total pool size, (42/21) split]
Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
BTCOEXIST off
wl0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Wireless Controller
5.100.98.75
[IOBluetoothHCIController::setConfigState] calling registerService
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 9ED1A9DC-93E5-3AD4-8089-BC2BEFCB17E0
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@B/AppleMCP79AHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST95005620AS Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Momentus XT@2
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Kernel is LP64
NVEthernet: Ethernet address 34:15:9e:00:83:08
AirPort_Brcm4331: Ethernet address f8:1e:df:e5:e5:29
IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():
Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
AGC: 3.0.16, HW version=1.7.10, flags:0, features:4
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
DSMOS has arrived
Created virtif 0xffffff800ca43a00 p2p0
AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
00000000 00000020 NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active
NTFS driver 3.8 [Flags: R/W].
NTFS volume name BOOTCAMP, version 3.1.
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2
MacAuthEvent en1 Auth result for: 00:11:24:aa:ed:65 MAC AUTH succeeded
wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP
AirPort: Link Up on en1
en1: BSSID changed to 00:11:24:aa:ed:65
AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
macx_swapon SUCCESS
com.avast.AvastFileShield: Started.
com.avast.AvastFileShield: Disabling debug mode.
AppleLMUController found an AG vendor product (0x9cac), notifying SMC.
virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task*, void*, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
utun_ctl_connect: creating interface utun0
Daniels-MacBook-Pro:~ danieldelaunay$

[Uncle Jim]

Downloaded and installed CampTune X Beta on Apple MacBook Pro (2008 Penryn) running Mac OS X Lion v10.7.1.
1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
No. (If No: please send us the log files and describe your problem shortly)
The first attempt failed with my machine giving a Finder has stop working error.
Had to reboot.
Could not find any log files.
Second attempt at "Redistribution" went off flawlessly ;D
Original BootCamp size 81GB original and Mac OS partition 636GB
BootCamp new size 154GB and Mac OS partition 596GB.
Both operating systems boot flawlessly.

Aside from installation dialogue incorrectly wanting Name and Serial Number
as opposed to Product Key (Name) and Serial number entered.

The process was intuitive and logical but an active (percentage completed / time remaining) "pacifier" would be apprecated as opposed to the hardly moving installation bar.

No additional features need to be added! The program does a rather intricate and critical job very well as per it's brief.. The "KISS" principle at its best!

[randygordon]

1). Yes
2). Yes
3). Yes
4). Yes. I would like to have the ability to create and format to NTFS a partition like in the previous versions. Critical for me.

[patto2k]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
used 10.7 on a 160gb drive which had 40gb of free space on the mac partition and a 20gb windows partition.
resized the windows 7 (64) partition from 20 to 30 GB and it went through without error.
it seems to have messed up the partition table though.
noticed when it was done there was now an extra Windows in Finder.

230040

here's the diskutil output

macbook:CampTune X pat$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Lion 124.2 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 20.0 GB disk0s4
4: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s5
5: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 29.8 GB disk0s6

i'll reboot and see if anything changed.

edit: it seems now is back to normal. noticed that recovery hd isn't the last partition anymore.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Lion 124.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 29.8 GB disk0s4



2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes, but it'd be good if during the resize dialog it showed you the free space of each partition.

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes.
Noticed it says Camptune and not CampTune at the top of the window.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
the ability to designate a hard drive for windows only. i think this would be tough for usb though. if it was for internal only that'd be ok.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
no comment

[patto2k]

i posted the above post but don't know how to edit it.
just replying that I think i've found a bug. I can no longer select to boot the Windows partition from Startup Disk in OS X.

230129

[marcjohnson]

1. No.
Experienced hard lockup after moving the redistribution slider (and then clicking continue). Forced to power cycle computer. Tried several times. Dmesg and diskutil output follows. Never got to the screen where i can save off logs... if they're stored somewhere let me know. Computer still works.

2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
5. No


-----------------------------------
dmesg
-----------------------------------
calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
IOAPIC: Version 0x11 Vectors 64:87
ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
PFM64 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000
[ PCI configuration begin ]
console relocated to 0xf10030000
PCI configuration changed (bridge=6 device=3 cardbus=0)
[ PCI configuration end, bridges 7 devices 19 ]
mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 101BA587-D706-36C2-AB62-269BA1667004
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 16:44:42 Jun 7 2011) initialization complete
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
BTCOEXIST off
wl0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Wireless Controller
5.10.131.42
FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 002332fffec693b4; max speed s800.
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@B/AppleMCP79AHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/WDC WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Untitled 2@2
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 16544256 to: 20611584 (joffset 0x951000)
jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.
Kernel is LP64
hfs: Removed 10 orphaned / unlinked files and 0 directories
NVEthernet: Ethernet address 00:23:32:c6:93:b4
AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address 00:23:6c:7e:00:d1
IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
systemShutdown false
Waiting for DSMOS...
AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
AGC: 2.10.6, HW version=1.7.3, flags:0, features:4
kxld[com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard]: The Mach-O filetype 0x1 is not supported on the target architecture.
Can't load kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard - link failed.
Failed to load executable for kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard.
Kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard failed to load (0xdc008016).
Failed to load kext com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard (error 0xdc008016).
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
DSMOS has arrived
/drv/ HypApic.c:234 Host APIC phy 0xFEE00000 lin 0xffffff80ab41a000 ver 0x14
/drv/ HypRealCpu.c:189 hypRealCpusInfoInit: STATUS_SUCCESS
/drv/ HypLowCache.c:158 Low cache initialized (7808 kB for 16 VMs on 8192 MB)
/drv/ HypModule.c:178 Parallels IPI irq = 0 ipi = 0(0x0)
/drv/ HypModule.c:181 Parallels Hypervisor 4.0.3846.436204 loaded.
NTFS driver 3.4 [Flags: R/W].
00000000 00000020 NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active
NTFS volume name BOOTCAMP, version 3.1.
/prl_hid/ Parallels HID Helper started.
IOBluetoothBNEPDriver: Ethernet address 00:23:12:5d:e8:27
com.parallels.kext.prlnet 4.0.3846.436204 has started.
com.parallels.kext.vnic 4.0.3846.436204 has started.
com_parallels_kext_prl_vnic_device_0: Ethernet address 00:1c:42:00:00:08
com_parallels_kext_prl_vnic_device_1: Ethernet address 00:1c:42:00:00:09
Auth result for: 68:7f:74:02:67:d6 MAC AUTH succeeded
AirPort: Link Up on en1
AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
ast_pending=0xffffff8000228b0e
cpu_interrupt=0xffffff800022f0ae
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x85a offMax=0x13d1
VBoxDrv: version 4.1.4 r74291; IOCtl version 0x190000; IDC version 0x10000; dev major=19
VBoxFltDrv: version 4.1.4 r74291
VBoxAdpDrv: version 4.1.4 r74291
BootCache: hit rate below threshold (4323 hits on 8647 lookups)

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diskutil
--------------------------------------
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 159.9 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 590.1 GB disk0s3

[mightyalrighty]

-{ Quote: "i posted the above post but don't know how to edit it.
just replying that I think i've found a bug. I can no longer select to boot the Windows partition from Startup Disk in OS X." }-

Has anyone found a solution to this? My Mac side was correctly partitioned but my Bootcamp partition won't even show up. Is there a way to recover it?

[marcjohnson]

-{ Quote: "Has anyone found a solution to this? My Mac side was correctly partitioned but my Bootcamp partition won't even show up. Is there a way to recover it?" }-

Yes. I've had that problem a couple times.

I always booted my Window installation CD-ROM and select "Startup Repair." Its an automatic process.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

This is for Windows 7, but previous versions of Windows have had this too. There is also the Recovery Console where you can issue advanced commands (google that)... but I have never had to resort to that.

[mightyalrighty]

But where would I boot the Windows DVD from? I can't even access the partitition to restore Windows.

[marcjohnson]

-{ Quote: "But where would I boot the Windows DVD from? I can't even access the partitition to restore Windows." }-

Hold down the option key during startup, and after a few secs, the boot menu will show DVD/CD as an option. You can also hold the 'c' key to boot directly, but I've never tried that.

http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/qt/osxstartupkeys.htm

[patto2k]

-{ Quote: "Yes. I've had that problem a couple times.

I always booted my Window installation CD-ROM and select "Startup Repair." Its an automatic process.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

This is for Windows 7, but previous versions of Windows have had this too. There is also the Recovery Console where you can issue advanced commands (google that)... but I have never had to resort to that." }-
are you saying a windows repair caused the windows partition to show up in startup disk again?

I think it could be related to camptune x moving the windows partition AFTER the recovery hd partition. that's just a theory though.

[cmisicka]

So I downloaded the beta software and attempted to try it out and it is stuck at the "Your system is being scanned for a Boot Camp Configuration" screen and goes no where. I've let it sit for quite some time. I've rebooted and tried, repaired permissions and tried... nothing. From start to finish I downloaded the program, moved it to the applications folder like it asks, started it from there, entered the info from the email and hit continue and then it just sits there. Am I doing something wrong?

thanks

[Mephist]

Hello patto2k,

Could you please provide us with the output from the following commands from terminal:
1)mount
2) sudo gpt -r show /dev/rdisk0
3) sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

It's Ok that recovery HD is between Mac OS X and Windows system partitions. It is also OK that you had additional partition before rebooting your system...

Thank you very much!

[marcjohnson]

OK, just wanted to provide an update.

CampTune worked brilliantly. Both partitions are resized and I can boot either side.

My only testing feedback is this: I recommend that a message is displayed warning that the computer could/will be completely unresponsive for awhile. It appeared as a lockup for many minutes, so I prematurely power cycled the computer (just during the assessment phase). The third time I ran it, I let it go for hours without touching it, and then all was fine.

Thanks for the fine software!

[TMOdenmark]

I just installed the Paragon Camptune X but unfortunately I get this error message:

"You've got no Boot Camp configuration in your system. please connect another disk, then click refresh."

Any help would be appreciated since it looks like the kind of software I'm looking for.

Specs:

MacPro 1.1
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
3 harddrives, 2 external drives & one NAS Synology (all connected)

Best regards,

Thomas

[pbb_redux]

1) yes, noting i ran chkdsk /f on the windows side as administrator first, along with verify in disk utility on mac osx, no problems both os's booted just fine and size is correct.
2) yes
3) would suggest a confirmation dialog just before doing the resizing
4) see above... also i did this on a 2011 27-inch imac, with a 2TB drive. Originally had 500 gig for the bootcamp partition, and resized it to 1TB, so the drive was split with 1TB for mac osx and 1TB for windows 7 via bootcamp. As I adjusted the slider, it maxed out at 1TB for the windows 7 partition, while it would take the mac osx less than 1TB. Either that was a display bug or that extra space would go unallocated, it was unclear. So - does camptune X max out the bootcamp partition size at 1TB?

Also - when the program is starting the resize, it says checking mac drive and then checking windows drive... is that "checking" the chkdsk /f? or something else.

[Mephist]

Hello pbb_redux,

2TB drives are not really 2TB...It likes 2 000 000 000 000 bytes, which is 1.8 TB.
There are no program limits of partition sizes. Maximum size is the maximum size available on the disk.
Before resize CamptuneX checks file system without fixing errors (like chkdsk in Windows and fsck_hfs or "verify" in Mac OS X). If errors are found CamptuneX won't start the redistribution to avoid data loss.

[pbb_redux]

Mephist-
Understood, but they are asking for feedback on this thread and the program has at the very least a display error in it with regards to the numerically displayed size allocated to the bootcamp partition when it gets above 1TB. The graphic would be correct and not limited, but the numerically displayed size format/max/whatever needs to be fixed. Have a good one.

[Mephist]

pbb_redux,
Ok, I've got your point.
Thanks a lot for feedback!

[quite_toxick]

1. A - Except that there was no notification after the process was completed, just a blank window. Apart from that it seems to have worked just fine.
2. A - Maybe there should be some advice on which apps can be left running, if any.
3. A
4. B
6. B

Additional information:
At first, my external storage HD was still plugged in. CampTune automatically chose that instead of the internal HD. It detected a windows partition that does not exist there (though admittedly there are two partitions on it, but both for MacOS). When I tried to switch between the HDs on the dropdown menu, CampTune always changed back to the external HD after scanning. Thus I unplugged it and everything went well.
Furthermore, there was a short freeze during the "checking the MacOS partition" phase, but only for a minute or such.

[pippox0]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes


4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. It is good already and complete.:D

[Magik303]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. It is good already and complete.

[oliveenchine]

Hi,

My config :
MBP 15" 2011
SSD Crucial M4 (primary) + Apple HDD 750Go (secondary)

SSD -> Os X Lion
HDD -> TimeMachine / Data Partition / Bootcamp partition (created using bootcamp assistant)

Camptune was not able to detect the BOOTCAMP partition .

If any idea on how to solve this problem, please let me know .

[patto2k]

-{ Quote: "Hello patto2k,

Could you please provide us with the output from the following commands from terminal:
1)mount
2) sudo gpt -r show /dev/rdisk0
3) sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0" }-
macbook:~ pat$ mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk0s4 on /Volumes/Windows (ufsd_NTFS, local, noowners)
/dev/disk1s2 on /Volumes/Drobo (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

macbook:~ pat$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 2014
2048 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
411648 2048
413696 851156992 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
851570688 123822080 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
975392768 1380367
976773135 32 Sec GPT table
976773167 1 Sec GPT header

macbook:~ pat$ sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 0 0 2 - 25 159 6 [ 1 - 411647] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 25 191 39 - 1023 254 63 [ 413696 - 851156992] HFS+
*3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 851570688 - 123822080] HPFS/QNX/AUX
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

[eldison]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes. The checking partition status indicators don't animate.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes, Free space indication.

(Imac Late 2009, OSX SL last version, 1To HD 300Go free, Bootcamp (with Win7 64Bits) 65Go to 150Go.
Succesful :thumb: )

[relentlessglory]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes


4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.
-Maybe already in the works, perhaps a countdown timer or at the very least
a animated progress bar.

-I have a password enabled, and every now and then during the process I needed to "Click the lock to enable changes". Don't know if it would continue without me clicking and entering credentials but I did it anyways. Maybe a
special process that unlocks the process for the duration until it finishes?


6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes.

-The ability to clone to a new, blank hard drive would be nice; especially
if one did not have to rebuild a Bootcamp partition after cloning with other
software.

My Configuration:

2.66GHz/320GB HDD/ 8GB RAM MacBook Pro 13" (Mid 2010)
MacOS X Snow Leopard in full boot 64-bit Kernel and Extensions
Windows 7 Professional x64 with SP1, NTFS
MacOS and Windows up to date as of 12/9/2011

[Datacrater]

Was your redistribute operation successful?
b. No, The program operation completed successfully, and OSX boots fine still, but when I try to boot into windows, it just goes into a command prompt type screen with a bunch of text that if I key through ends with a line saying 'grub'. ???

I tried to 'repair' my windows 7 (x64) installation through the dvd but it won't let me do this because of a 'compatibility error' with versions. :'(

If anyone could please advise on how I can fix this, I would be appreciative!


2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes, though progress bars with the checking windows and osx partition stages would be good.


4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No, well it would be good if it worked for me like it's worked for others.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. I like simple, not-bloated one purpose programs.

[Datacrater]

Any ideas folks? I'd love to get my windows partition back up and running!

[alain93]

Hello,

I just use Camptune on my Macbook pro 2,3 ghz and it work fine ! So, I put "Yes" on all questions.

Just two little thing :

- when I open the "applications" folder by the dock, the Camptune icon appear like an unusable powerpc application. If I open normally the "applications" folder by clicking on the Macintosh HD folder, it appear correctly.

- It seem when my Macbook close the screen during process for saving energy, the security lock and the process wait. I must unlock the security for continuying proceed.

Translated version for non-english readers will be a must.

Thank you very much for this application,

and merry christmas !!!

A.Michel.

[markIV]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes, I used a MacBokk Arr with SSD

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
b. No. Some explanations about what will happen BEFORE the process starts would be helpful.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. It is good already and complete.




-{ Quote: "Paragon Software proudly starts CampTune X Beta testing.

Beta Product information:

Web site: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptunex-beta/

Reviewer's guide: http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/CampTune_rg_en.pdf

In case you have any problems with registering or installing the product and you can’t review it, please contact us at beta-test@paragon-software.com
We will be glad to assist you.

Thank you for your participation - We'll look forward to your feedback!

Beta Testers evaluating Camptune X Beta, please review and answer the following questions, after you complete the tests of the software.

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes
b. No. (If No: please send us the log files and describe your problem shortly)

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes
b. No.( If No: please describe the stage that caused major problems for you and what improvements you suggest)

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes
b. No. (If No: please describe the confusing dialogs, or send screenshot based examples)

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes. If Yes: please describe features you want to have in the next version.
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes. (If yes, what else would you like this solution to do, extended tasks such as creating a partition for Windows, ability to backup and restore Windows partition, support of complex configurations, etc?)
b. No. It is good already and complete." }-

[apple4all]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
Yes, but it would be usefull if there is a sound or a notice after the process is ready. There ist just the white window without a notification.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
No. It is good already and complete.


The software is: AAA

[torment00]

1-A
2-A
3-A
4-B
5-A all options mentioned in your text.

It works fantastic, very easy, so if you put in extra functionality then do so in an advanced mode.
1 remark tho,
Halfway the procedure it asked me my admin password again ?!
And my mac hanged for the entire procedure (got me very nervous), the only thing i could use was my mouse, nothing else worked, i tryed to click several app's but nothing reacted, when camptune finished all app's i clicked started reacting again...

[tuthill]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes


3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes


4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?

b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?

b. No. It is good already and complete.

[JoJa15]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
b. No. When checking the partitions (Mac and Windows) it should have some sort of progress bar or estimated time to give you an idea of how long it will take. The item that looks like a progress bar animates to tell you it is in progress but it does not give you an idea if it is a short or long process. The same applies to the actual redistribute process. I wish that there was an estimated time to complete so you know how long it has left. It does have a progress bar which is nice but it moves so slowly it is hard to tell if it is actually moving. A percent done along with a estimated time to complete would make the dialogue more clear to me.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes. I wish there was a backup and restore feature built in so that if something went wrong with the redistribute (power failure, software error, etc) that I could restore my Mac and Windows partitions.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes. I guess I answered it above. I wish Camptune X could backup and restore the various partitions. Outside of that I am extremely happy with Camptune X beta. It worked flawlessly for me and did the job that it was intended to do. I like that I did not have to make a boot disk and I was able to accomplish everything from within the OSX Lion side.

[douwei]

Hello
I installed the camptune X beta but when it tries to find my bootcamp partition, it just says "Scanning" but never finds it. Any suggestions?

[UtahWJR]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
b. No.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No. It is good already and complete.

Question - does changing the size of the drive impact Windows activation in any way?

[freddieknets]

1-A
2-A
3-A
4-A - Slider between mac and windows partitions moves now in steps of 1 Gb. This is perfect and intuitive. However, sometimes you want a more precise partition size, so it would be nice to have, besides the slider, also the possibility to enter a numeric value for any of the two partition sizes. Also, an advanced user mode, with the possibility to see and edit all the partitions on the disk (not only Boot Camp) would be interesting.
5-A - An option to backup (or migrate) the Boot Camp partition.

Thanks!
It does perfect what it should do, easy, intuitive and fast! This is some nice coding.

[remond]

1: a
2: a
3: a
4: b
6: a Possibility to back-up windows partition before re-partitioning
Tested with macboock air, decreased bootcamp partition with no problem

[Trebuin]

1. No, no log file available as both partitions were corrupted and unusable.

2. Yes

3. Yes

4. Yes, backup is critical.

6. Technically yes/no, Camptune 9 has backup, this needs it as well

[Kronos711]

Hi,

I've just tested CampTune X Beta on a 15" MacBook Pro early-2011 model which has been modified to use a Crucial M4 SSD for primary storage.
The CampTune X Beta was installed on OSX Lion and used to expand a 150Gb BootCamp partition running Windows 7 (32-bit) to a new size of 160Gb.

My responses to the formal Beta-Tester questions are as follows:

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes - The task was successfully completed in a couple of minutes and verified via OSX's Disk Utility.

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes, however as other users have reported, the program's icon in the Dock's application folder was shown as a program that could not be launched, as if it was an incompatible PowerPC application in an Intel Mac... but it launched OK.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.
Firstly, an indication of available free space in each partition type via the GUI would be extremely useful.
Secondly, a re-sizing progress indicator of either "Time Remaining" or "% Complete" or both would be most useful.
Thirdly, and most importantly for me, the value of CampTune 9 is partly in its partition re-sizing capabilities (infrequently used) and partly in its Backup capability (more frequently used). The lack of a Backup capability in this version greatly devalues the product for me, since I've been able to discover NO OTHER SIMPLE & SUPPORTED backup solution for a BootCamp partition that co-exists with Lion. While I applaud your efforts to bring the partition-resizing functionality inside of OSX rather than forcing the user to reboot from external media, I hope the you will consider doing the same for the ability to Backup and Restore the BootCamp partition. (Full Image Backups like before are great, the ability to do Incremental Image Backups in addition would be even better.)

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes. Even if you decide to create Basic and Advanced versions of the product, since there are many on this forum who like the idea of a product that just does the re-partitioning and nothing else.
I would personally prefer a product with a more advanced feature set that retains and builds upon CampTune 9's capabilities. In having the ability to boot from external media, the earlier-generation product provided not only the re-partitioning capability but also the ability to use the image backup/restore to completely recover from primary storage drive failure or easily upgrade to a larger disk. It would great to see this external media booting capability made possible via USB drives, so that users could boot from the same media that contains the backup images themselves. This would also benefit users who did not have optical media drives.
It appears that one of Paragon's main objectives for CampTune X is to move away from complete reliance on external media, although that will remain necessary for the ability to recover from HDD failure. However, a far more frequent need is the ability to recover a partition that will no longer boot.
Can I therefore suggest a cross-platform hard-disk-based solution that allows partition resizing and backup/recovery of the BootCamp partition from OSX, as well as the ability to restore an OSX image backup via Windows (which might successfully boot even when OSX does not - this happened to me a couple of months ago).
Finally, I would like to see support for complex partitioning configurations, such as having an OSX partition, a BootCamp partition and an independent data partition, all co-existing on a single drive so that user data is kept isolated from OS failures. Such a product would then be a natural 'fit' for bundling with your 'NTFS for Mac' and/or 'HFS for Windows' solutions.

Thanks for letting us contribute.

[fgl87]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
b. No. (can't find any log files of operation on my HD)

At the end of the operation the program hung infinitely, as if being in some sort of loop, while doing nothing. I've waited several hours, but it was still saying something about being busy with my windows partition.

After stopping the program, my bootcamp partition was completely gone!

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
b. No.

I'd like to see a button to expand a detailed overview of what's going on during the process. If I had this, I could have seen what went wrong myself, for the log file is missing.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.

A backup function.. although I could've made the backup myself.. I think that if the program was able to offer this, I would've still been able to go back to my old configuration. Now my whole bootcamp installation is lost.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes.

I think a piece of software solely for this purpose is silly.. I'd merge it with paragon partition manager OR drop the price to $10,- since I wouldn't pay 20 bucks for a piece of software I'll rarely need.

Anyway.. you guys have a lot of work to do... because this didn't help me at all.. Now I still need to do a complete reinstall, which obviously was what I was trying to prevent me from having to do..

[ACSBeta]

The first time that the “Redistribute Free Space” screen came up, it was blank. Only after clicking “Go Back”, then Continue, did it actually complete the scan and show the graphic indicating how much space was currently allocated to both the Mac and Boot Camp partitions.

Otherwise, everything else went smoothly. CampTune redistributed the free space as expected without any errors. :)

[ACSBeta]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
a. Yes, after clicking "Go Back", then continuing to have it rescan.

2. Was the process intuitive?
a. Yes

3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
a. Yes.

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.

Prompt the user to perform a backup before proceeding with the redistribution. The backup prompt could redirect to TimeMachine.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
b. No.

[pingudownunder]

1. Was your redistribute operation successful?
b. No.

Stuck at the "Your system is being scanned for a Boot Camp configuration" screen.

2. Was the process intuitive?
b. No.

Stuck at the "Your system is being scanned for a Boot Camp configuration" screen. I'm not sure if this is because I had previously encrypted the HDD using FileVault (lion full disk), and then decrypted it again?


3. Were all dialogs and menus in program clear to you?
N/A

4. Do you think that Camptune for Mac OS X needs additional features?
a. Yes.

Ability to collect and send logs to support.

6. Do you think that Camptune solution functionality needs to be extended?
a. Yes.

Ability to backup/restore Bootcamp partition would be ideal.

[Paragon_MA]

Hello to everyone.
The beta testing of CampTune X has been finished.
Paragon Software Team thanks everyone who took part in tests. We would like reward active tester and thus will need your email addresses. Please contact me via Private Messaging option on the forum with your E-mail and Name details.

Thanks again
Best regards
Paragon Software Team