Posted: 8/21/2010 7:59:35 PM EDT
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New to the Mac thing...and there are a couple programs I need that don't translate well into Mac world. Anyway, I went to install Bootcamp, and got this error message, "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved."
Since I would never think of asking this without using Google it first, here is the advice I found: You need to backup, erase the entire drive, then restore from your backup.
here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775452 OK, so I bought a 1TB drive today, and I'm using Time machine on it right now. Since I have never done this before...if I restore from the time machine backup, all of my programs, etc. will all be there, right? I'm a little nervous. Just to be clear, I would have to reinstall Photoshop for example? |
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I don't know what size partition you were trying to set up, but it's trying to access parts of the disk that are locked by something in use by OS X. If you try a smaller partition, you may not end up asking for those same sections of the disk and it will let you do it. So, if you were asking for a 100 GB partition the first time, try something smaller, say 60 GB and see what happens. |
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Oh, I also found this on the macrumors forum: When it fails to create the partition, you still have the one partition disk. Insert your OS X CD and boot from it by holding down C at reboot. Run disk utility and repair disk. That did the trick for me, when it fixed, I went back to Mac OS X, cleared my trash and any other temp files just to be safe, reran boot camp assistant and the partition worked just fine. The error it found when fixing the disk (fix the disk, not permissions), was that one of the cataloging files (I can't remember at the moment, I think it had to do something with free space) was off by a few bytes. Worth a shot. |
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And another thing to try from the macrumors forums: 1) boot into single user mode. 2) run fsck -fy 3) type reboot and press enter 4) try boot camp again. You boot into single user mode by powering down, then hitting the power button, and as soon as you hear the chime, hold down the Command and "S" keys simultaneously. You'll get a grey screen with a command line interface. Follow the directions. The fsck is a unix equivalent to scandisk or chkdisk in windows. ETA: Ooops. Didn't see that you got it working. Nevermind about the fsck thing, but it's a handy thing to know if you ever need to check your filesystem without completely booting into OS X. |