Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used.

Hi
When i try use Boot Camp i get the following message:
Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used.
You must update your system software before using this setup assistant.
I've installed all the latest updates & it still displays that error??? Can anyone help? I'm sure it used to work.

Confirmed. I was having the same problem, but using SuperDuper to clone the hard disk to an external drive, booting from that drive, reformatting the internal drive using Disk Utility and then finally recloning everything back across to the internal solved the problem. Boot Camp Assistant would then allow me to partition off a chunk for Boot Camp and begin the installation process.
I do tinker more than most people, so it's possible I had screwed up the internal disk structure somehow. My first clue that this was the solution that would work for me was trying to add an extra partition to the internal drive following Dark-Pirata's comment; despite the fact that the disk was formatted as HFS+ Journaled, an error message informed me that I couldn't repartition unless my hard disk was formatted as HFS+ Journaled.

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Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          4
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