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Boot Camp Partitioning Issues

I'm trying to use boot camp to partition a section of my HD for Windows, but before the partitioning finishes it says that I need to restore my drive to Mac OSX Journal or something...
Does anyone know what this error means? I'm running 10.5.1 on a MBP.

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 2g Ram, 2.4ghz

Posted on Dec 25, 2007 3:16 PM

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Jan 4, 2008 11:18 PM in response to bowiehegemon

yeah! I've even tried partitioning with a different program and it doesn't work.
Is there some way to defrag?

Jan 11, 2008 9:02 AM in response to lazersailer

How big a partition are you trying to create? Have you tried the various workarounds suggested in the many other threads on this, particularly from the beta timeframe? Things like safe boot, trying a slightly smaller partition, doing a double-clone to defrag the disk, etc.? Before you do anything potentially destructive, like a double-clone or a third-party defrag utility be sure to back up anything not easily restored or recreated.

Doug

Boot Camp Partitioning Issues

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