CampTune X Beta

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!

 

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!

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 .

 

Code:

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)

Code:

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

Code:

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     

 

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 )

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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?

 

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.