Can't install bootcamp

[jamin00]

It fails at the disk partition. My drive is journaled as this was something I see needs enabling.

I'm on the latest osx.

I already have VMware Fusion 6 installed.

Could this be affecting it as I run Windows 7 in that but I also want bootcamp so if I need I can boot up in Windows as I understand that way it uses machines resources better and runs faster.

I have tried disk repairs etc but I have no idea.

Help please.

 

[jamin00]

Just a bit more info. I just tried to create a partition using Disk Utility but this failed saying it failed to verify something. But I done the verify disk etc?

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[yjchua95]

It fails at the disk partition. My drive is journaled as this was something I see needs enabling.

I'm on the latest osx.

I already have VMware Fusion 6 installed.

Could this be affecting it as I run Windows 7 in that but I also want bootcamp so if I need I can boot up in Windows as I understand that way it uses machines resources better and runs faster.

I have tried disk repairs etc but I have no idea.

Help please.

If you want to run Windows 7 from Boot Camp, you must use the Boot Camp Assistant to create the Windows partition for you.

You cannot create a Boot Camp partition out of a virtual machine VMDK.

You can only do this way if you want to have Boot Camp and also be able to access the BC partition from VMware:
1. Use BC Assistant to partition the drive.
2. Install Windows in the BC partition.
3. Use VMware and boot from the BC partition if you don't need full resources.

 

[jamin00]

This is the trouble I am having, I can not partition the drive using Bootcamp assistant.

I have tried to partition the drive using the utility and it will not partition so I think there is something going on with my SSD

 

[Quackers]

I would suggest returning the drive to one main partition for OSX then reboot then run repair disk then reboot again.
Once that's done I would try Bootcamp Assistant again.

 

[jamin00]

Have tried many things recently but nothing appears to be working.

I might have to go see a genius?