Boot camp stuck on "Status: Partitioning disk..."

I've been stuck on Boot camp stuck on "Status: Partitioning disk..." for 3+ hours

what am I supposed to do?

here is a screenshot of what it looks like

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MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 24, 2016 2:43 PM

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Sep 24, 2016 4:38 PM in response to mlyin

You have chosen the Windows size to be very close to the available Free Space. This can be very slow when trying to create contiguous disk space for the Windows partition. The best way to get this size to work, is by using a Time Machine backup/erase the internal disk/restore before you partition. The Restore will make the underlying disk have contiguous disk space.

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Boot camp stuck on "Status: Partitioning disk..."

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