I wanted to build a triple-boot Mac with three partitions, one for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, one for OS X 10.5 Leopard, and one for Windows XP. Next, iPartition, unlike anything provided by Apple, lets you divide your Mac disk into a Windows partition and two separate OS X partitions-or even a Windows partition, an OS X partition, and a Linux partition. It's much easier to let iPartition take care of it. If you're running Vista or Windows 7 on your Mac, there are complicated workarounds that let you perform this feat, but these workarounds aren't available for Windows XP. If you want to decrease the size of your OS X partition and expand your Windows partition, you're out of luck if you don't have iPartition. But Disk Utility can't expand or contract a Windows partition after it's created it. Apple's Boot Camp utility can create a Windows partition and perform some low-level tricks to make Windows boot normally on hardware that it normally can't work with. Before I tell you about iPartition's elegant interface and smooth operations (and a few of its drawbacks), let me describe the special features that make it worth having in the first place.įirst, iPartition, unlike Apple's Disk Utility, can resize a Windows partition on your Mac machine. Coriolis Systems' iPartition is one of the few commercial utilities for OS X that are definitely worth paying for-but you'll probably want it only if you need one of a few specific features that iPartition performs effortlessly but that the Disk Utility that comes with OS X can't handle at all. OS X includes so many powerful, well-designed utilities that vendors need to come up with something special if they want you to pay for their products.
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