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    Boot Camp Partition Problem!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by TheRedFool, Sep 15, 2008.

  1. TheRedFool

    TheRedFool Newbie

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    Hey guys. Alright so i am having a problem running Boot Camp.

    It starts up all fine and dandy and then i select the size of the partition i want to make and the program starts the process but then right in the middle of its formatting i get an error message that reads:

    "The Disk Cannot be Partitioned Because some files cannot be moved. Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."

    and then from there i open up the Disk Utility and i am completely confused as to what i am supposed to do.

    Any advice or instructions you guys can give me on what i should be doing to make this work? Thanks a lot.!

    -Mike
     
    TheRedFool, Sep 15, 2008
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  2. domyalex

    domyalex Notebook Consultant

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    Well, turns out I spent my whole day today dealing with this and other issues.

    From what I was able to understand it happens because Bootcamp cannot find enough sectors to allocate to the Windows partition.

    There are basically two choices:

    The easy one (doesn't always work): try to delete as many big files as you can; I had ~18Gb between two iso files and 2 big folders. I also had the Parallels VM pointing to the (now deleted) Win partition. After deleting ~25GBs or so (including the VM), Bootcamp was able to create the partition

    Hard one     ("should" always work): get a defrag tool (you have to pay for it, why Apple hasn't included one is beyond me), like iDefrag. Create the bootable CD, let it defragging the HD the whole night, and it should help. Several users reported success after shelling out their $35...

    Best of lucks! It surely is pretty frustrating...
     
    domyalex, Oct 1, 2008
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