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When I try to partition my hard drive for Windows 7, I get an error saying The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. I have a 2006 Macbook Pro I believe and I really need assistance as soon as possible.

I have Windows 7 Premium Home and I have downloaded the Drivers and when I click Boot Camp Assistance to partition my hard drive, it says, "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." I can't do any backup really because I don't have an external hard drive to work with. I tried repairing disk permissions but that did not do anything. I really need a lot of help with this with some easy, step-by-step tutorials or something. I believe I have a 2006 version of Macbook Pro(4,1).

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), I need help partitioning my Mac

Posted on Nov 30, 2012 3:09 PM

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User profile for user: Csound1
Csound1
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Nov 30, 2012 3:25 PM in response to DarkFyreFox

You will most likely need to go and get an external drive then, but before you do try booting to your OSX installation DVD and running Repair Disk from there, some have had luck with that (not me)


Otherwise do as the dialog says, Backup/Erase/Restore.


The message means that you do not have sufficient contiguous space for Boot Camp to partition, the restore will place all files contiguously

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Csound1
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Nov 30, 2012 4:15 PM in response to DarkFyreFox

Once you have obtained an external drive and connected it you will 'clone' your internal drive to it.


Download Carbon Copy Cloner (it is not free but there is a fully functional trial version which is). Use it to clone your internal drive to your external drive. When that is done you will reboot from the clone and use Disk Utility to erase the internal drive (choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) as the format (this is normally preset, but check). Make sure to give the external drive a 'distinctive' name, don't want to get drives mixed up in this process.


Once that is done you will use Carbon Copy Cloner (from the clone) to restore the external to the internal.

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Csound1
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Nov 30, 2012 4:20 PM in response to DarkFyreFox

DarkFyreFox wrote:


I have never really tried to backup my hard drive before

As for the wisdom of this I don't know what to say, are your files worthless? without a backup any error, malfunction or accident can remove them from you without warning, you will have an external drive available after you do this so I suggest that you use it to backup in the future, buy the largest drive you can, 1tb is good.

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When I try to partition my hard drive for Windows 7, I get an error saying The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. I have a 2006 Macbook Pro I believe and I really need assistance as soon as possible.

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