"Verification failed. This disk could not be partitioned."

Any ideas?

Well I tried what you said. I booted from the install CD and Verified and Repaired the Drive. (repair was greyed out when logged in, and verify failed).

After I re-booted, I ran Boot Camp utility. I chose a 10gb partition. It asked me for my admin username and pass. Then the progress bar went busy for a couple minutes. It asked me for an admin username and password again, then said it was starting to partition.
Almost instantly the screen became grayed out and a message in a darker gray box appeared in several different languages saying that I must restart my computer. I was not given the option or ability to do anything else but restart.

Now I am back where I started... even though I made a bit of progress. Thank you for your suggestion.

Also, when I logged into my admin account, it showed me the data for the kernel panic:

Tue Apr 29 01:15:43 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0031E21F): "hfs_lock: locking against myself!"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.4.31/bsd/hfs/hfs_cnode.c:986
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2ea836d8 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x2ea8370c 0x133230 0x0)
0x2ea83728 : 0x31e21f (0x484e90 0x0 0x2ea83758 0x1f1d72)
0x2ea83758 : 0x31ebc7 (0x50a0800 0x3 0x0 0x43c3804)
0x2ea83848 : 0x1f3e30 (0x2ea83860 0x0 0x2ea83888 0x1f5d49)
0x2ea83888 : 0x1db8f0 (0x5093870 0x545b184 0x35ba70 0x0)
0x2ea838a8 : 0x1db95d (0x5093870 0x0 0x10 0x51febf0)
0x2ea838c8 : 0x335732 (0x5093870 0x68000 0x5333f68 0x51febf0)
0x2ea83bc8 : 0x335a8e (0x545b184 0x2bb7fff 0x2c762c 0x0)
0x2ea83c58 : 0x32cc6c (0x43c3804 0xb8000000 0x2b 0x545b184)
0x2ea83cd8 : 0x1f6039 (0x2ea83d08 0x0 0x2ea83cf8 0x0)
0x2ea83d38 : 0x1e8e0c (0x43c0c70 0x80006802 0x2ea83ee0 0x0)
0x2ea83f78 : 0x3dcf13 (0x51febf0 0x545b080 0x545b0c4 0xb0080d78)
0x2ea83fc8 : 0x19f1c3 (0x5220320 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x5220320)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xb0080d88

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: DiskManagementTo

Mac OS version:
9C7010

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro4,1 (Mac-F42C89C8)

Ok, I called Apple and they said to re-install Leopard from my install DVD. well, I did that and the exact same thing happened. Arg, anyone know a way I can do this without using boot camp?

nerowolfe wrote:
When you reinstalled Leopard, did you import all your old apps and settings? If so, that may be the problem.
You either have a hardware problem, HD, RAM, etc., or some bad software.
If you install Leopard from scratch; ie. erase the HD completely and then install Leopard, I am sure your problem will go away, unless it's bad hardware.
You should get some software and check your RAM and HD thoroughly if this is the case.

I used the archive and install method the first time. So technically my settings did get copied. But that did not fix it. So now I'm backing up and I'm going to do a clean install and update, then re-try this before anything else gets put back on.
The program specialist at apple thinks it's a hardware problem, but said to try it this way first.

I've run Tech Tools Deluxe and it found nothing, so I don't know. I'll let you know how the clean install goes.

The hatter wrote:
When you reinstall, first select Disk Utility from the menu bar, don't just erase and install.

From Disk Utility, go to PARTITION tab and change it from "Current" to one new "untitled" partitions, click Apply.

You got a kernel panic, that gray multi-language screen. "Kernel Panic when Partitioning" almost needs a sticky or FAQ.

In some cases, I would even use the security erase option to zero a drive first, before partitioning, to insure less chance of bad sector.

As for installing XP, you need BootCamp. Also, Vista 64 is better supported than XP 64-bit which is better done in VM rather than native (BootCamp has 32-bit XP drivers, Vista 32-bit, and 64-bit Vista).

Yes, when I do my clean install, I will use the new partion. Thanks! And I'm using XP 32 bit. (don't have vista.)

Ok, so it's working now. I don't know the exact problem but I can tell you how I fixed it.

- Backup up all my personal files using backup (nothing big enough for time machine)
- Inserted OSX install DVD, rebooted, chose disk utility.
- Zeroed out the Disk and reformatted to HFS+ journaled
- Installed OSX
- Ran bootcamp assistant, No ERROR!

works.

So something somewhere got screwed up that wasn't fixed by the archive and install. Thanks for all the help guys.

-Josh

Just a side note, this problem is also present on my friends MB. Remember, this problem was with my HD when I first got it. I wonder if this has anything to do with the install at the factory as completely reinstalling it (as shown above) fixes the problem.