Aug 18, 2015 Take your “Windows on a Mac” experience to a new level. This tutorial will show you how to create a Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine from your existing Windows Boot Camp partition. In addition, if you want to resize Mac Startup hard drive or adjust BootCamp partition on Mac then use the software ‘Create Bootable DMG‘ option to create a bootable media for resizing Mac HD and Windows partition. Both Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMware Fusion allow you to import your Boot Camp partition into one of their virtual machines. Once you do this, you can resize their partitions. Parallels comes with an image tool that lets you easily resize your virtual hard disk, but Windows can't add the extra space to your partition without a little help.
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