The first trouble I face on this venture is that it says
"The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition"
I have made a partition aside from the startup disc, is that the problem?
Is there a way to rectify this issue?
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kornchild2002 Notebook Deity
Did you manually create the partition or was it done through the bootcamp utility?
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Try deleting the partition, then create it using the Boot Camp utility. I think once you begin to install Windows, you'll need to format the partition during the install. I'm trying to recollect from memory because I havent used BC in a good long while
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kornchild2002 Notebook Deity
Yes, use the bootcamp utility to make the partition or else you will run into issues like this. Bootcamp will automatically make a FAT32 partition on the drive and Windows will see it. However, Windows will tell you that you aren't using the right file system. That is alright as all you have to do is instruct Windows to reformat the partition and it will use NTFS. That is all done through the setup process of Windows but you can't get there unless you use Bootcamp to make the partition that you want to install Windows on.
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kornchild2002 Notebook Deity
Whenever you start Bootcamp, you want to use the options of updating the drivers and installing Windows 7. It is during the Windows 7 pre-installation whenever you select the Windows partition size (where you can split things, use a preset, or manually change it to whatever size you want). There is something wrong if you can't select "Install Windows 7." That might have to do with the partition you already crated on your hard drive. Have you deleted that yet and re-integrated back into your main partition?
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