Wanting to Install Windows 7

When I go to Boot Camp to partition the drive, it says "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved" and that I need to "Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
Is there any other ways of doing this? I don't want to do it this way because I have have reinstalled the OS 10 too many times on this computer.
thanks

No, I'm afraid its not that simple.
The problem is that physically on the drive, data is spread out all over the surface of the disk. When you make a partition, it needs to have a uniform, clean chunk of the disk. Normally, Boot Camp Assistant can move data around, but if it is too fragmented, then it gives up and spits out that error message.
There may be some other free defragmenting software out there, but I don't know what they are, so I can't tell you if they can fix this. The reason I recommend iDefrag is because it has a special mode that deals specifically with this problem, called "Compact".
More information on fragmentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation
Message was edited by: mohaas05

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