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Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your drive to an external drive, then reformat and partition your internal drive and restore from your CCC backup.
Bootcamp:"disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved"
The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.
The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can not be moved.
The disk cannot be partitioned because...
Boot Camp: "Files cannot be moved"
Bootcamp: "Files cannot be moved"
Bootcamp | The disk cannot be partitioned
Bootcamp:"disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved"
The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.
The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can not be moved.
The disk cannot be partitioned because...
Boot Camp: "Files cannot be moved"
Bootcamp: "Files cannot be moved"
Bootcamp | The disk cannot be partitioned
The message tells you what to do, though not as detailed as many might like.
Do you have an external HDD handy?
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Ok got that but is that really the way I have to do it as my external drive I have for some reason the way it is formatted it is not being recognized by the computer and I don't know why!
I'll have to play around with it as I really need to get bootcamp installed!
Ok got that but is that really the way I have to do it as my external drive I have for some reason the way it is formatted it is not being recognized by the computer and I don't know why!
I'll have to play around with it as I really need to get bootcamp installed!
It is not recognised by your computer, or you can't write to it?
Does it show up in Disk Utility? I guess, it is not properly formatted*?
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Do you have data stored on the external drive? If not, just reformat it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then you can clone your internal drive using CCC.
Not sure what is on it as I can't get it to register as a selectable drive on my system.
I'll just have to play with it and if not I can always buy a cheap external drive to do that for.
Now if I do CCC and I reformat the drive do I need to partition first then do bootcamp then install data back on or back up with CCC reformat then add data back on then bootcamp?
And if I do that I won't get the partition problem like I am having now?