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Boot Camp Installation

Hi,

I am trying to install Boot Camp (it requires 50GB of free storage), however, I have more than 60GB left and still it tells me that there is not enough space. Any ideas?

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Posted on Feb 28, 2017 1:27 AM

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Posted on Feb 28, 2017 6:10 AM

If you not want to buy a commercial product, try


1. Backup OSX and all your files - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support .

2. Boot into Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R) - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support .

3. Click on Utilties -> Disk Utility and Erase your internal whole disk.

4. Restore OSX and your files - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support .


This requires a separate external disk which can accommodate TM backup - Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support .

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Feb 28, 2017 6:10 AM in response to MIAUMIAUMIAU

If you not want to buy a commercial product, try


1. Backup OSX and all your files - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support .

2. Boot into Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R) - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support .

3. Click on Utilties -> Disk Utility and Erase your internal whole disk.

4. Restore OSX and your files - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support .


This requires a separate external disk which can accommodate TM backup - Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support .

Feb 28, 2017 2:31 AM in response to MIAUMIAUMIAU

Hi,


You don't have enough contiguous space for the partition size you have requested. Your drive is too full and has started to get fragmented towards the end of the drive. You really need to replace the drive with a larger one before starting with Boot Camp Assistant.


Otherwise, you need to defragment your drive which will take quite some time and requires you have an external drive you can use or you will need to purchase defragmenting software like iDefrag 2.2.4 ($32.00)


Cheap and Easy Defragmentation


You will have to backup your OS X partition to an external drive, boot from the external drive, use Disk Utility to repartition and reformat your hard drive back to a single volume, then restore your backup to the internal hard drive.


1. Get an empty external hard drive and clone your internal drive to the

external one.

2. Boot from the external hard drive.

3. Erase the internal hard drive.

4. Restore the external clone to the internal hard drive.


Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility


1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.

2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.

3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.

4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag

it to the Destination entry field.

5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to

the Source entry field.

6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.


Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.


Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager appears. Select the icon for the external drive and click on the upward pointing arrow button.


After startup do the following:


Erase internal hard drive


1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.

2. After DU loads select your internal hard drive (this is the entry with the

mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the

drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is

failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be

reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the

DU main window.

3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the

drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended

(Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to

GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait

until the process has completed.


Restore the clone to the internal hard drive


1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.

2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.

3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.

4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag

it to the Destination entry field.

5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to

the Source entry field.

6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.


Destination means the internal hard drive. Source means the external startup drive.


Note that the Source and Destination drives are swapped for this last procedure.

Boot Camp Installation

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