Boot camp issues

[nusynergy]

Hey,

Iv had a look about the forums and cant seem to find a problem smilier so please dont roast me if there is one..

Can anyone help.

Im looking to install Vista onto my new mac book pro so i can run a couple of games that only work in windows.

I want to do this via Boot camp.

When i start up book camp it starts Verifying the and creating the partitions needed then fails with the an error "Unable to create partition as some files could not be moved. Please backup for disk, reformat to Journaled and then retry the Boot camp assistant".

Obviously i dont want to re build my mac to install windows on. Is there anything i can do about this other then formating my mac and starting again?

Regards
Ed

 

[Consultant]

Google that error message darn it.

Also, search iPartition here on Macrumors, or google it.

 

[Neil321]

Google that error message darn it.

Also, search iPartition here on Macrumors, or google it.

What about defragging your HDD, isn't that supposed to work also ????

 

[DARKJ3DI]

try repairing permissions. i had to since the bootcamp assistant kept failing for me too.

 

[boast]

remove files larger than 1 gb

(to another drive, or w/e) and try again.

 

[nusynergy]

All sorted now.

I decreased the size of the windows partition

Thanks for all the suggestions