Boot Camp Assistant help

[Classick]

So after owning my unibody Macbook for about seven months now, I just found Boot Camp Assistant. Before today I had been on and off with Parallels.

When I tried running Parallels today it said it couldn't start the Virtual Machine because there wasn't enough memory. 2GB ram with no other processes. So then I stumble upon Boot Camp Assistant- but it can't partition my HD.

http://i40.tinypic.com/azchs2.png

That's the error I get. Is there anyway to get my HD partitioned for Boot Camp without having to back up and restore? I don't have access to an external HD, so backing up is out of the question.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and as a bonus- I was wondering if this was normal.

http://i41.tinypic.com/29nuzc7.png

The partition number is at 2, despite the Partition tab in Disk Utility only showing one.

 

[r.j.s]

In short, no.

There are files that cannot be moved in the place where the BC partition would go. Backing up, erasing and restoring are the only thing that can free those blocks.

 

[gr8tfly]

The only solution [without erasing the drive] I can think of is iDefrag. It will give you the contiguous free space Boot Camp Assistant needs to create the Windows partition.

 

[aidricksdad]

i just ran into this too and i tried idefrag and it did not work but i only dod quick defrag wich should not work anyway....i fixed by moved 5 or six big files off of my hdd and then it worked fine

and by big i mean 4 gigs each

then i partitioned 180 for windows 7 no problem

 

[Classick]

I guess I'll give iDefrag a shot. No harm I suppose. Probably do my HD some good.