I just got the HD replaced in my iMac 27 inch 2011 with a brand new one from Apple (old one failed). All I've done so far is installed OSX (first Yosemite, then free upgrade to El Capitan) and migrated some files from external HD. Next, I went to Bootcamp to make a partition for Win 7, like I used to have on my old computer. I have NOT partitioned this HD before -- it's new and I just got it yesterday.
I get the error: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."
I have already run disk utility several times within the OS and through recovery mode. It hasn't helped, I still get the error
I ran diskutil list in Terminal and got:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 3.0 TB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
I don't see anything wrong; Apple says I should still be able to make a Windows partition even with the existence of the recovery partition; I don't want to remove the recovery partition.
What should I do? I really don't want to try reinstalling my entire OS again (just got done with that yesterday!)
I get the error: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."
I have already run disk utility several times within the OS and through recovery mode. It hasn't helped, I still get the error
I ran diskutil list in Terminal and got:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 3.0 TB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
I don't see anything wrong; Apple says I should still be able to make a Windows partition even with the existence of the recovery partition; I don't want to remove the recovery partition.
What should I do? I really don't want to try reinstalling my entire OS again (just got done with that yesterday!)