Partitioning hangs while installing Windows 8 with Boot Camp on MBA 2013

[NectarMBA]

Hello all,


I try to install windows 8 with Boot Camp on a new MBA 2013.

At the step "Create a Partition for Windows" I select the size of the partition (80 GB on 250 in total), click install and then ..... nothing happens. The progress bar under "Status: Partitioning disk..." is graphically animated (i.e. with moving blue and white strips) but actually nothing really changes: the progress percentage stays to zero and nothing happens during hours.


If I Force Quit the Boot Camp Assistant, the MBA is not partitioned: there is still one disk with original space and OS X seems to work totally fine. I tried to verify the disk: no problem found. I repaired the Disk Permissions, restarted and tried again to run Boot Camp: same problem.

Do you have a idea to solve my problem pls??

For info, the MBA is new, I have installed couple of softwares: LibreOffice, Gimp, Aptana, HP Printer drivers.


Thanks in advance

 

[TPadden]

Hello all,


I try to install windows 8 with Boot Camp on a new MBA 2013.

At the step "Create a Partition for Windows" I select the size of the partition (80 GB on 250 in total), click install and then ..... nothing happens.

When all else fails just use Disk Utility to partition your drive into 2 partitions. You will have to select it and format NTFS anyway during the Windows install.