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Q: How to fix Bootcamp's "Your disk could not be partitioned.." fsck not working

Hello, after days of searching for a solution and trying many times to fix this, I'm posting a question.

 

I want to create a partition with Bootcamp in order to install Windows 7. Here's what I did in this order:

 

  1. Tried to partition with bootcamp but it was only letting me select 32gb or 1024gb (which I didn't have available).
  2. Manually create partition with Disk Utility and upon booting to my flash drive, found out that the USB 3.0 / Bluetooth drivers wouldn't load so ran into issue where I couldn't get past "select language" screen on Win 7 install.
  3. Tried to reboot and delete my partition but noticed I couldn't so I had to boot into Internet Recovery and using terminal and gpt commands, deleted that unused partition and used Disk Utility to merge it back into main drive. I followed these instructions: Deleted my bootcamp partition but cant resize my osx partition
  4. Re-ran bootcamp and got error "Your disk could not be partitioned."
  5. Ran disk repair/verify etc and no errors found.
  6. Ran fsck per this thread Your disk could not be partitioned. Win7 Bootcamp and still got same here.
  7. Thought maybe filevault was causing issue so disabled that. 48 hours later my 2.3TB were decrypted.
  8. Ran bootcamp, same issue.
  9. Ran fsck, same issue.
  10. Currently using TestDisk to analyze sectors on disk1, is that right?:

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I'm up for creating another manual partition if I can get USB/BT drivers to work.


By the way, does anyone know why there is a 32gb/1024gb limit on my partition size for bootcamp? Why can't I select anything in between?

 

Specs:

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Thanks in advance for any replies!

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jul 13, 2016 3:43 PM

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