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Boot Camp error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

Hi!

I am getting the error:

"The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."


I read up some on google, but all of them says that they have crated a partition and that is the problem, I only have the standard "Macintosh HD".

I tried to create a partition manually in disk utility but then the error message: "Partition failed with error message: Could not unmount disk."


Can anyone help me? It's driving me crazy.


Thanks.

Macbook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 19, 2011 6:48 AM

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Oct 19, 2011 7:24 AM in response to TheDarkmanWs

This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!


Is it so hard to follow through? you were to have backup already, clones are best, then erase/format and restore.


Then partition.


Some have been able to use Disk Utility booted from OS X DVD or another drive, and repair the drive.


You have to use Boot Camp Assistant (99.9% anyway) to create and achieve a proper Windows Master Boot Record partition.

Boot Camp error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

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