When I try to run Boot Camp, it gives me an error message?

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When I try to run Boot Camp, it gives me an error message?

I run an intel-based Macbook Pro. It's from the late 2008 release, and I updated it to Mac OSX 10.6.7 recently. I want to run Windows 7 on it, but I cant, because every time I try to run it, It says the same thing. "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." When I go to Disk utility, it shows that there is only one drive from my hard drive, so that can't be the problem. I need some help, but keep in mind that I'm not very experienced with this, and I need help from a mac guru. I don't want to risk losing my data, but I already have all my data backed up onto an external hard drive.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on May 30, 2011 12:51 AM

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EVO67

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May 30, 2011 3:49 AM in response to Thadenvy

I'm not a guru, but I know that the Disk Utility GUI application doesn't show everything.

Can you go to the Terminal application (which you find in the Utilities folder that is within your Application folder), enter the following command without quotes "diskutil list", press return and copy, paste and post the output here. Note that this command will do not do anything to your data.

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Csound1

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May 30, 2011 5:50 AM in response to Thadenvy

Are you sure that you posted the entire message, it looks like parts are missing, please run BC again and note the entire message.

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Thadenvy Author

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May 30, 2011 4:55 PM in response to EVO67

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 249.7 GB disk0s2

sriharis-macbook-pro:~ srihari$

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Thadenvy Author

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May 30, 2011 4:57 PM in response to Csound1

The entire message is as follows:

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.

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May 30, 2011 5:33 PM in response to Thadenvy

Thadenvy wrote:

The entire message is as follows:

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.

That error message shows up often and is discussed frequently in the Boot Camp forum. https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp . Do a search in the Boot Camp forum for that message and you'll get many answers.

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The hatter

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Jun 1, 2011 7:15 AM in response to Thadenvy

Please don't start a new thread, it is getting obvious you don't follow directions or instructions.

ERASE the full 250GB it looks to be hard drive.

RESTORE

Then rerun Boot Camp Assistant

The normal partitions before running BCA are:

200MB GUID

128MB EFI

249GB HFS

128MB EFI

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