luis95

Q: Disk can't be partitioned BOOTCAMP WIN 7

Hi guys,

 

I'm trying to install Win 7 through Boot Camp in my late 2013 Retina 13-inch Macbook Pro. After trying to partition my drive i get the following message:

"Your disk could not be partitioned"

 

I read some posts in the Support forums and I ran Disk Utility and used First Aid on my drive. It recognised the error "Incorrect number of file hard links" and supposedly fixed it. Still the disk couldn't be partitioned. I tried another method using Command-S while booting and typed "/sbin/fsck -fy"... it gave me a succesful repair message and I tried Boot Camp again with the same results.

 

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 7, 2015 7:29 PM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 7, 2015 7:36 PM in response to luis95
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    Nov 7, 2015 7:36 PM in response to luis95

    Do you have any partitions on the disk other than OS X (EFI and Recovery HD are normally hidden)? Check diskutil list in OS X Terminal.

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 7, 2015 7:39 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 7, 2015 7:39 PM in response to Loner T

    This is what I get... I've been using an Airport for backups and TM.

     

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

    /dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +249.8 GB   disk1

                                     Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                     A42075D0-1A0B-40BF-AEDC-1E1875B45672

                                     Unencrypted

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 7, 2015 8:04 PM in response to luis95
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    Nov 7, 2015 8:04 PM in response to luis95

    Boot into Internet Recovery, and from Utilities -> Terminal run

     

    1. diskutil verifyVolume diskN (N should point to

     

      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +249.8 GB   disk1

                                     Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                     A42075D0-1A0B-40BF-AEDC-1E1875B45672

                                     Unencrypted

     

    2. diskutil repairDisk disk0

     

    Please post any error messages (legible photos will also work).

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 7, 2015 8:40 PM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 7, 2015 8:40 PM in response to Loner T

    Hope this helps!

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 8, 2015 4:47 AM in response to luis95
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    Nov 8, 2015 4:47 AM in response to luis95

    Please disconnect all external storage except the USB flash drive intended for the Windows USB Installer and run BC Assistant. If you see any errors, please check Applications -> Utilities -> Console logs for any disk related error messages.

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 8, 2015 7:48 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 8, 2015 7:48 AM in response to Loner T

    Tried it and I'm still not able. Here's what the console log says about Boot Camp:

     

    Screen Shot 2015-11-08 at 09.46.17.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 8, 2015 8:05 AM in response to luis95
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    Nov 8, 2015 8:05 AM in response to luis95

    What is the 4GB device connected to your Mac?

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 8, 2015 8:08 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 8, 2015 8:08 AM in response to Loner T

    I don't know. I have only my USB with the Windows Installer (it's 16 GB).

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 8, 2015 8:47 AM in response to luis95
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    Nov 8, 2015 8:47 AM in response to luis95

    As a test, can you run Disk Utility and create a small 16GB partition on your disk? If it works, post the output of diskutil list.

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 8, 2015 9:24 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 8, 2015 9:24 AM in response to Loner T

    I couldn't partition with Disk Utility either. Here's the error log shown in Disk Utility:

     

    Screen Shot 2015-11-08 at 11.23.11.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 8, 2015 9:59 AM in response to luis95
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    Nov 8, 2015 9:59 AM in response to luis95

    Please post the output of

     

    diskutil list

    diskutil cs list

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 8, 2015 10:21 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 8, 2015 10:21 AM in response to Loner T

    Here's the output:

     

    Screen Shot 2015-11-08 at 12.20.00.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 8, 2015 10:28 AM in response to luis95
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    Nov 8, 2015 10:28 AM in response to luis95

    Please run

     

    diskutil verifyVolume disk1

  • by luis95,

    luis95 luis95 Nov 8, 2015 10:31 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 8, 2015 10:31 AM in response to Loner T

    Here you go

     

    Screen Shot 2015-11-08 at 12.31.09.png

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