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my boot camp will not install windows

i would like to install windows 8 but it wont work plz watch my youtube vid eally need help http://youtu.be/SDj67ap5Kqg

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 11, 2014 9:01 AM

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Feb 12, 2014 2:01 AM in response to theiphone5sdude

actually repair disk is way different than defragin. what looks like is that you have data across your whole drive spread out which then bootcamp cant partition a section of the harddrive cause it needs a continous segment of the harddrive to do so. To fix this you need to find a program that does defrag.


heres a program that does this and helped me on my issue.


http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php

Feb 12, 2014 2:20 PM in response to theiphone5sdude

Defraging WILL NOT FIX THIS ERROR

The people telling you to buy defrag software are spambots. OSX doesnt NOT need defragged, in fact if you have an SSD it will cause unessary wear and literally cant speed up your drive.

Ignore that crapware completly.

Can you select your drive in Disk Utility then switch to Parititions and send a screenshot of that.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375

Feb 12, 2014 4:35 PM in response to alwinalex

u cant partition a space if there are chunks of small spaces of memory in the hdd. partitions need a continous not broken parts of memory for a partition. and if there is not enough size for a contigous partion then it wont happen. you need to move all those memory written in the hdd together to have more contigous space for a partition. though doing defrag wont decrease your hdd, if any at all.

Feb 12, 2014 4:39 PM in response to alwinalex

Mac OS X users have not needed the ability to defragment their hard drives. Most defragging is done in the background by the OS. There is one caveat: OS X does not defragment files larger than 20 MB. Quite often, many game files are easily larger than 20 MB. Fragmentation of game files will negatively impact performance of games, particularly FPS games

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