My boot camp assistant cant create a new partition!!

[alam]

hello every one :)
i having some problems with my boot camp :mad:, every time i create a partition... it stops and tells me this error:-

"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can't be moved.
Back up the disk and use disk utility to formate it as a single MAC OS (Journaled) volume.
Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."

and by the way :p, my mac os drive formate is MAC OS (Journaled) :confused:, and please guy's can any one tell me a way to solve this issue with out the Restoring & Backup thing :(.

thanks :D

[MM07]

Do you have the latest Bootcamp update?

Just update to your brand of Windows.

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

[xUKHCx]

and by the way :p, my mac os drive formate is MAC OS (Journaled) :confused:, and please guy's can any one tell me a way to solve this issue with out the Restoring & Backup thing :(.

thanks :D

As far as I am aware the only way to get around this apart from erasing and cloning back again is to use a third party tool such as drive genius to de-fragment your drive. However this is a risky process so you will want a backup anyway.

That said the last time I had to deal with this issue was a long time ago so perhaps something has changed since.

[alam]

As far as I am aware the only way to get around this apart from erasing and cloning back again is to use a third party tool such as drive genius to de-fragment your drive. However this is a risky process so you will want a backup anyway.

That said the last time I had to deal with this issue was a long time ago so perhaps something has changed since.

well i remember using the clone program to up size my windows partition :p
but does this harm my boot camp??

[alam]

Do you have the latest Bootcamp update?

Just update to your brand of Windows.

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

well i'm updating now to 2.0 to 2.1
i hope that it well work :o

[ruskiwi]

Boot Camp Assistant and the Boot Camp update are two different things. The first is for making a Windows partition while running the Mac OS; the second is for updating the drivers for Windows while running Windows.

To get around Boot Camp partitioning problems, see this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5543579).

[Bonsai1214]

i'm having this problem too, and if i use time machine to back my stuff up, i can format my hd, and then go back to the way it was, partition, etc right?

[alam]

well i guess that there is no any choice to do, so i'm gonna backup my drive then formate :(
thanke you every body :)

[bookkrazer]

Use disk utility from your application folder, it's in a folder called utilities.

Just erase the unwanted disk

google more info on disk utility

[Bonsai1214]

but my main question is, if i use time machine, can i restore my comp to the way it was after i reformat?

[alam]

Use disk utility from your application folder, it's in a folder called utilities.

Just erase the unwanted disk

google more info on disk utility

well i tried it in few days but it still didn't work :rolleyes:
tnx

[Radio Monk33]

Hey, hope this isn't too late, but I just fixed this problem with my comp yesterday.

Apparently after too much use/removing a partition data is fragmented on the drive, preventing BootCamp assistant from working.

I had to use the Leopard install disk to restore from a time machine backup, then ran boot camp assistant with no prob to restore the partition. Then it was a simple matter to use winclone to restore my saved partition..