Boot Camp error message: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
I'm trying to partition my HD to instal Windows so I can play some games, but I keep getting this error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
I checked disk utility - only one partition. Just my mac's HD.
I ran:
diskutil list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
I got:
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
samantha-walkers-macbook-pro:~ samanthawalker$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 974831808 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
975241448 262144
975503592 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
976773128 7
976773135 32 Sec GPT table
976773167 1 Sec GPT header
samantha-walkers-macbook-pro:~ samanthawalker$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
I then used this:
diskutil mergePartitions disk0s2 disk0s3
I got this:
usage: fdisk [-ieu] [-f mbrboot] [-c cyl -h head -s sect] [-S size] [-r] [-a style] disk
-i: initialize disk with new MBR
-u: update MBR code, preserve partition table
-e: edit MBRs on disk interactively
-f: specify non-standard MBR template
-chs: specify disk geometry
-S: specify disk size
-r: read partition specs from stdin (implies -i)
-a: auto-partition with the given style
-d: dump partition table
-y: don't ask any questions
-t: test if disk is partitioned
`disk' is of the form /dev/rdisk0.
auto-partition styles:
boothfs 8Mb boot plus HFS+ root partition (default)
bootufs 8Mb boot plus UFS root partition
hfs Entire disk as one HFS+ partition
ufs Entire disk as one UFS partition
dos Entire disk as one DOS partition
raid Entire disk as one 0xAC partition
I tried boot camp again and same old error message.
What else could it be?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
