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Problems with either Bootcamp or my hard drive

The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can not 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 would like to partition my drive so that I have windows 7 on my Mac as well as os mountain lion but I get the above message every time. I have partitioned it before and it has worked but then I ran out of space on my hd so I had to remove the partition until I could clear out enough space to retain that partition. If anybody could describe this problem to me and how I might go about fixing it that would be more than great. Thanks!!!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jan 16, 2013 3:49 PM

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Csound1
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Jan 16, 2013 3:58 PM in response to SebazBiohazard

SebazBiohazard wrote:


Im pretty sure I have enough free space because I have 150 gigs left.

That is irrelevant, you need Contiguous space, and you do not have enough, as I said either fix it or don't install Windows.


The best way to fix it is to backup your HDD, erase your HDD and restore your backup, do you have a backup of the drive (a clone is best for this)

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Csound1
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Jan 16, 2013 4:10 PM in response to SebazBiohazard

If you have no backup stop what you are doing until you do.


You will need an external drive large enough to hold the entire content of your internal drive. You will use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a clone of the internal drive. Then (from the recovery partition) you will erase the internal drive, finally you will restore the clone to the internal drive.


But first try repairing the disk using the recovery partition.


PS: do not be in a hurry, you are changing the partition structure on your Mac (which could cost you everything on it unless done correctly)

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Csound1
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Jan 17, 2013 3:31 PM in response to SebazBiohazard

SebazBiohazard wrote:


So you would recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner as opposed to TimeMachine. OK. I will use this to make a copy on my 2 tb external hdd. Then, after completing that, should I boot using the recovery partition? And then how do I restore the clone to the internal drive? Is this all correct?


Thanks for your help so far!!!

Yes I would, but after completing the clone reboot from it, use disk utilities (from the clone) to erase the internal and then run CCC (from the clone) and restore to the internal drive

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Problems with either Bootcamp or my hard drive

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