HELP! Installation Failed!

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icomputered

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• Jul 25, 2012

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Every time I try to install ML, I get an error saying that OS X cannot be installed on the disk Macintosh HD, because a recovery system can't be created. BTW, I have a Windows XP boot camp partition.

Is there any way to fix this without deleting my boot camp partition?

 

Last edited: Jul 25, 2012

GGJstudios

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• Jul 25, 2012

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icomputered said:

Every time I try to install ML, I get an error saying that OS X cannot be installed on the disk Macintosh HD, because a recovery system can't be created. BTW, I have a Windows XP boot camp partition.

Is there any way to fix this without deleting my boot camp partition?

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Did you go to the website that the error message directed you to?

OS X Lion: "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation

 

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• Jul 25, 2012

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GGJstudios said:

Did you go to the website that the error message directed you to?

OS X Lion: "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation

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Thanks for your response! Yes, I did, but it told me to completely restore my computer, which I am not okay with. Also, that support page is for Lion. Lion allows you to continue the installation, while ML does not.

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Anyone else?

 

yojitani

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• Jul 25, 2012

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Did you install Lion without the recovery partition? Or do you already have several partitions? When ML installs, it creates a recovery partition. In so doing, the Windows partition will be rendered unbootable because it (bootcamp) can't be resized.

 

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