Bootcamp error "startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned"

Hi, I want to install Windows 7 on my Macbook pro 2015 with Mojave and APFS Volume. I have 55GB free space on my mac but Bootcamp tells me there's not enough space and I have to free at least 40GB.

My Time Machine is off and I have also tried sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots / in Terminal but no snapshots are listed.

Please help me it's really frustrating 😟

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Nov 15, 2018 12:48 PM

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Nov 16, 2018 6:37 AM in response to Loner T

I used OmniDiskSweeper and cleared about 30 GB of space (the totall empty space is 87 GB now ) and the error was fixed. It took me to the partitioning page but then told me I can only install Windows 10 64 bit and later versions.

I only need Windows to run an application which I have already tried with Parallels but got the "Unable to run on virtual machine" error and also Wine and Wineskin which couldn't run it.

Can I install Windows 10 Lite version using bootcamp?

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Bootcamp error "startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned"

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