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.
*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.
It sounds like your hard drive does not have Journaling turned on. This is an option that is set in Apple Disk Utility. Journaling is used to track all changes to a drive so that it can recover from errors and should only be turned off for drives used in intensive read/write uses like video production.
Your drive is probably not able to give up enough space for the Bootcamp partition because there are files or fragments of files in the area it needs to use. The bootcamp partition needs to be in one contiguous space.
I'm curious how your drive got set up without the default Journaling setting.
If you're running Time Machine, you can boot from the Leopard DVD, set up your hard drive properly, and reinstall your OS by telling the installer to use your TM backup for restore.
I am getting that exact message (the one the original questioner is getting). But when I "get info" about my drive it will say that it is Journaled, and I am not able to click the "Enable Journaling" button.
I have the same problem, it's journaled, i have 22gig free.
I am defragmenting it now with IDEFRAG, hoping to solve the problem.
I' doing a full defrag from another machine.
If you search for the "cannot be moved" message, you'll find LOTS of previous discussion, especially in the beta Boot Camp forum, with workarounds that work for some but not all. For me, booting in "safe mode" usually worked. Others have reported various other workarounds - fixing permissions, using a third-party partition tool, requesting a slightly different partition size, etc.
I've got the same issue.
I've deleted the windows partition to make it bigger, and at the time to re-create partition, bootcamp sent me that message...
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6612/immagine1hu1.jpg (sorry the message is in italian).
I could screenshot and post if needed but under disk utility info for my internal hard drive it says journaling is turned on and supported...?
So i don't know why this isn't working...
Somebody in an italian forum, said that deleting parallels installation could solve the problem (parallels puts virtual hdd at the end of partition).
I've deleted it, and it didn't works....so I deleted some big files, obtaining 40gb of free space (from 21GB before), then with disk utility I used the option "clear free space" (setting all values to "0")...and...it works!!!!!
But at the moment...I don't know what is the thing that made bootcamp works...maybe its only to "clear free space"!
Update:
I've Seven-Times Zeroed out the free space.
I've used Disk Utility and OnyX to repair disk permissions
I've verified the disk
Yet I still can't partition using Boot Camp or Disk Utility!
Why?