Boot Camp Assistant: "Can't move files"

Hi,
I'm trying to create a 500GB partition with BCA and it keeps giving me the "Can't move files, back up data, format, etc." error.
I've currently got a 2 TB HD; the first time I attempted this I had about 633GB of data on the drive, so about ~1350GB free. I received this error so I bought iDefrag and let it run for a long time (~14 hours or so) until it was finished, and again I received the error.
(Prior to defragging I verified and repaired permissions through Disk Utility)
So I transferred a 110GB file over to my external drive, deleted off ~150-180GB of movies and TV shows (which are safely stored on another computer), culled some other stuff, did a verify + repair permissions, and now I'm only using 378GB of a 2TB disk.
It still won't work. I really, really, don't want to format and restore my info.
Any idea's how I can get this working? Thanks

Clone your drive and erase restore
iDefrag has to be run from a CD you burn, or from another hard drive. I definitely favor always having bootable clone backups for OS X.
Has to not have locked files where installers can place there
Boot CAmp Assistant should have iDefrag capability, but it doesn't (should also by now just be part of Disk Utility too).
Partitioning relies on not just free space, but contiguous and unfragmented.

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