Boot Camp Assistant & Disk Utility First Aid failing?

Hi,
I am trying to open my download of 3DS Max for an assignment but the following problems are stopping me:
1. The message ' The document "Autodesk_3ds_Max_Design_2012_English_Win_32-64bit" could not be opened. The file is too large'
2. After advice on this forum I tried to create a partition with Boot Camp Assistant (of 32gb). But this failed and told me to repair the disk with Disk Utility.
3. Disk Utility gives the following messages after I have tried repairing and also verifying the disk
Would really appreciate some help!
Thanks

Reinstall Leopard, but first use the Leopard install DVD Disk Utility to reformat the HD to one partition. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh14.html
It's for Tiger, but applies for Leopard as well.
WARNING, you must have your data saved somewhere else.
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Boot Camp Assistant / Disk Utility Stuck during Partitioning

Hello Apple / Apple customers,
I have a 15" MacBook Pro (Mid-2010) with a 320GB hard drive. I recently partitioned my hard drive to install Windows 7 in order to install and play a Windows game. Everything installed fine, but I discovered that I didn't have enough space partitioned to fit the game (I did not anticipate it taking 14 GB to install). So I deleted the partition. Now I'm attempting to make a larger partition and restore a Winclone image that I made of the previous partition on that new partition. The problem I am receiving occurs when I attempt to make a new partition in both Boot Camp Assistant and Disk Utility. During the partitioning process, Boot Camp Assistant stalls at about 30% and stays that way for hours, and Disk Utility also stalls during the "shrinking disk" part at about 30% as well. Is there anyway that I can fix this? I already tried repairing my hard drive by running Disk Utility via the Installation Disc, and it says that my hard drive is fine. Thanks in advance for the help.

Reinstall Leopard, but first use the Leopard install DVD Disk Utility to reformat the HD to one partition. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh14.html
It's for Tiger, but applies for Leopard as well.
WARNING, you must have your data saved somewhere else.
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Disk Utility: First Aid Failed, Filesystem verify or repair failed

Ouch,
So for some reason podcasts suddenly stopped downloading to my external music HD. Checked the permissions on the HD and it wasn't giving me access to the permissions even though I had permissions. Ejected the drive, mounted, ran Disk Utility and got the message above (subject of this post). The details box says the following:
Invalid Sibling Link
Volume check failed.
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So.... is my external drive dead? Can it be fixed? Is everyone going to recommend pro tools and disk warrior again? Anyone that has a bright idea, I am all ears. I have Time Machine running, but I am not sure how I would restore the drive from that and get my data back. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Well, oddly, it just fixed itself. "Bogus" you say? It is really odd. It just mounted itself, all my audio is working and podcasts writing to the drive again. I ran disk utility again and it ejected the drive and I got the same error message. I'm getting tons of conflicts on my system ever since I did my clean install of Leopard, so I imagine it has something to do with that.

Boot Camp Hangs, Disk Utility is very slow and gives an error.

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But my problem is that when I try to make the boot camp partition it just freezes/hangs 50% in. I have repaired my Disk and it says it is OK.
Got a tip that I could resize my current partition to a smaller size then, make it bigger. This would help bootcamp, but it did not it just hangs around 50% again... I let it say over night, and when I woke up I got a error saying something like
"partition failed at checking archives".
Now I am lost, and do not know what the next step is, this is very annoying and not as easy as I imagned.
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I assume this was the "slow boat to China" syndrome using TimeMachine over USB.
Sorry 'bout that, #1 before beginnng partitioning and the rest was "backup before beginning with Boot Camp Assistant"
Disk Utilty RESTORE is a clone style backup (or there are other programs but not on OS X DVD so you need to boot from something), and of course a different interface (eSATA wold be nice, so would TB or FW800) which should have cut it down to less than a day to backup.
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Older OS Disk Utility first aid use on newer OS

I have an external drive that has a bootable backup (10.3.7) of my Powerbook. The Powerbook currently is out of commision. I plugged the drive into an iMac and found the drive would not mount. The iMac's OS is 10.0.3. Can I use it's Disk Utility, First Aid to repair the error on the backup drive? The iMac says that there is an "Invalid node structure."

No, because Disk Utility cannot repair an "invalid node structure" problem. Disk Warrior (www.alsoft.com) may - and I stress "may" - be able to repair the directory, but if not you will need to reformat the drive.

Disk Utility - First Aid - The underlying task reported failure on exit

Disk Utility -> First Aid -> Repair Disk Permissions provides in red
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit'
This was a nightmare for me to fix, but after I learned how it was easy. If you get this error and you have not already restarted your computer, open you sharing preferences and make sure you ahve not set the everyone group to 'no access'. If you have change it and retry to run the permissions repair. If you have already restarted you will need to startup using your install DVD and then open terminal. In terminal type the following to fix your permissions.
chmod 775 /Volumes/'Macintosh HD'
This will change your permissions and you should be able then to get past the grey screen.
Hope this helps someone.

Hi everyone, I believe my permissions are the problem.
I let someone change permission settings to share music files on their hard drive and mine and another mac (3 in total) yesterday. I seemed to work. I can't remember if I then shut down my mac or just closed it. Anyway last night I was trying to organise the music files and burn them to dvd. I also tried change the permissions as some of the files were read only. I though it worked. It seemed to be burning and the screen saver came up, I clicked to exit screen saver and it just went to black and back to screen saver and i couldn't go any further. I had to hold down the power button to turn if off.
I tried to turn it on and now it's stuck on start up gray screen with the loading wheel thing? just loading forever.
I used disk utility, verified volume and repair disk are ok, but verify permissions and repair permissions, I get an Error message "the underlying task reported failure on exit"
I opened terminal and typed in what tryjezus1 said,"chmod 775 /Volumes/'Macintosh HD'" and pressed return. Not sure if I should have pressed return or if I should have just closed the window?. Anyway I'm still stuck.
I only have the mac since march so I believe I still have phone support, but if anyone can help I'd like to try and sort this out myself.

Cannot read partition created by Boot Camp in Disk Utility

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After spending nearly two hours on the phone with a very nice and helpful tech rep from Apple, my cell phone died, leaving us knowing that there is more space reportedly being used on my Mac HD than i have folders using space (only using about 73gigs of space before any of this partition work, now reports using 116 GB). I went back into the XP disk and deleted the 3rd partition, and now there is no gain in space on my Mac HD. We're re-verified and repaired disk permissions, and used the Leopard disk to repair the disk itself. Restored from Time Machine, and still no regained HD space.
Essentially I'm missing 35G of hard drive space now, and I can't install Windows.
I can only see the Mac HD partition on my hard drive. Anyone have a suggestion?!?!

Reinstall Leopard, but first use the Leopard install DVD Disk Utility to reformat the HD to one partition. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh14.html
It's for Tiger, but applies for Leopard as well.
WARNING, you must have your data saved somewhere else.
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Disk Utility: First Aid: "Repair Disk" grayed out when i select the HD

I'm getting the flashing question mark folder icon at startup and my Mac never does start. I'm trying to run through the repair suggestions on this forum and on the support pages but I can't do much of anything with the disk utility. (I've done the reset PRAM step and I've tried reselecting a startup volume both with the startup manager --HD wasn't shown as an option-- and by holding down "X" on startup... neither helped.)
Under first aid, verify disk permissions, i get the "no valid packages" error message. But "Verify Disk Permissions" is the only button available to me when I select my internal hard disk. The support pages say to "Repair Disk" but I can't select that option.
I've tried to reinstall the OSX from the CD, but when the installer asks me to select a destination volume, nothing is available to select.
I am running version 10.4.something at least. My CD is the one that came with the computer a couple of years ago. I have one of the early Intel Macbooks.
I have an appointment at the Genius Bar after work tonight but I'd love it if I could fix this baby sooner.
Am I hosed?

OK- Try a Single User boot- hold command +s while starting, and try and repair with fsck.
-Startup in Single User mode.
-At the command-line prompt, type */sbin/fsck -fy*. Press Return.
fsck will go through five "phases" and then return information about your disk's use and fragmentation. Once it finishes, it'll display this message if no issue is found:
*The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK*
-If fsck found issues and has altered, repaired, or fixed anything, it will display this message:
*FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED*
Important: If this message appears, repeat the fsck command again, until fsck tells you that your volume appears to be OK (first-pass repairs may uncover additional issues, so this is a normal thing to do).
-When fsck reports that your volume is OK, type *reboot* at the prompt and then press Return.
-Your computer should start up normally and allow you to log in.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck

Everytime I start Macbook Air it goes straight to disk utility, First Aid shows HD but when I try and reboot from HD it doesn't show up?

Hi,
My Macbook Airs been having trouble the last couple of weeks, it got quite slow and then was taking forever to load. I tried rebooting in Safe Mode and it ran disc and permission repairs and it came back saying everything was ok (however I could still click the repair after when it normally grey's out).
The other day I turned it on and it went straight to Disc Utility, I ran the repairs again on my Hard drive - still said everything was okay. Went to the Apple menu and tried to startup from disc, but my hard drive doesn't appear - there are no options for me to start up from.
I also tried re-installing Yosemite from a USB, when I tried this my hard drive did appear with an exclamation mark on it. When I clicked this and tried to re-install it told me there wasn't enough space available? I should also mention that when I was originally doing First Aid I also erased everything to see if that would work so there should be no reason why there's no space!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Boot into the recovery partition (COMMAND + R) and see if you can reinstall the OSX from the 4 option menu.
Ciao.

Boot Camp and Disk Utility giving Error for my Hard Drive Volume

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Hi,
you have to boot from the Leopard OSX DVD in order to repair the Leopard OSX volume on your harddisk.
Using Disk Utility from an OSX version that is prior to the one you want to repair can indeed cause more errors than before.
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MacBook Pro failing to boot up despite disk utility repair and PRAM

Problem: MBP frozen on boot up screen with Apple logo and turning gear (which freezes after a while aswell)
Solutions attempted: disk repair via custom recovery- disk utility, PRAM
Device: MacBook Pro 15" (early 2010) running 10.9
Additional info-
Never had any issue with the device and this seems to have happened all of a sudden. Installed an SSD a few months ago, and just realised the ssd did not have a recovery partition. However I connected my older hardrive via USB to access recovery which seemed to work fine.
NOTE: for the past few weeks, every now and then I was unable to power the device off and whenever this occurred, there seemed to be a few bugs (ie unable to empty thrash-error 50 and enable to increase/decrease volume/screen brightness). However, holding the power button and restarting it seemed to have fixed it.
Had the same issue but this time around MBP failed to boot up.
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Ranban wrote:
Are you suggesting reinstalling the os?
No.
Furthermore, is there a way to keep the data intact using this method? Or retrieve it at the least?
Repairing a disk should have no affect on the data, nor would an OSX installation. However if the data has value, there always should be a backup, preferably two.
In your original post you said "attempted: disk repair via custom recovery- disk utility". The term 'custom recovery' to me is alien and thus confusing.
What I am suggesting is a repair of the HDD using the original installation disk, not an OSX installation.
You insert the disk holding down the C key at startup. Proceed with the process until you see on the top of the display a menu bar. Select UTILITIES and from the drop down menu select Disk Utility. Then select Disk Utility>First Aid and then run Verify and repair. Exit from the installation process.
That way I know that the attempted repair was properly executed. You may have in essence done that, but there is an element of doubt in my mind.
Ciao.

Boot Camp Assistant says "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved." What can I do?

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Just installing OS updates and programs will
Write the installer
Uncompress the file at say 7x and write the actual installer in a free area that often may be anywhere but at the far end of the partition is common.
Write new version or copy of the files being changed/updated (myfile.new and myfile.old)
Delete the entry in the directory for the temp files and versions.
A program that can show your hard drive and where files are and where free space is, and show fragments.
OS X tries to eliminate small files with fragments when they are rewritten and when it can find contiguous free space to write the new file.
That can actually work against you, as it might fragment the free space also.
When a drive gets down to 20% free space there is a performance hit, you are using slower areas of the drive (inner tracks are usually 50% slower) and having more trouble finding filles and where to write files.
Clone Mac OS is one of the easiest and safest methods.
Click on source (Mac Harddrive), click on or drop the backup partition / drive into target icon.
Click "Run"
you end up with bootable (test it to be certain) exact copy.
Unplujg and keep it on a shelf
Update it before you inistall a new version etc of OS X or make changes.
Have two: one safe on the shelf from Week #1 and new Week #2
Disk Utility can do that.
With huge hard drives free space should not be an issue. The lack of a feature to defrag as part of Boot Camp or Disk Utility is why there are iDefrag and others, but they are slow and best run from.... a 2nd hard drive running OS X rather than from CD. and never great idea to do w/o backups or on live system.

Boot camp assistant ignores legit disks if the boot disk has a raid slice

I don't know if this is the right place to post... sorry if not.
Here's my setup:
disk0
Mac OSX HD
OS Share
Mirror (RAID slice)
disk1
Mac Fast
Windows Fast
Mirror (RAID slice)
disk2
Time Machine (one big Journaled HFS+ partition, that's it)
I wanted to use the assistant to make a new BOOTCAMP partition on disk2, but it never let me get past the opening screen because the startup disk had been partitioned outside of the assistant (true, it was) and was not a single Journaled HFS+ partition (also true). But disk2 is perfectly ripe for the, uh, boot camping.
I got rid of the RAID completely, and the assistant was happy to let me create the BOOTCAMP partition on disk2. After I got that working, I went back and re-created the RAID on disks 0 and 1. Everything works perfectly now.
Was I doing something wrong, or is this just a (subtle) bug in the Boot Camp Assistant?

Just installing OS updates and programs will
Write the installer
Uncompress the file at say 7x and write the actual installer in a free area that often may be anywhere but at the far end of the partition is common.
Write new version or copy of the files being changed/updated (myfile.new and myfile.old)
Delete the entry in the directory for the temp files and versions.
A program that can show your hard drive and where files are and where free space is, and show fragments.
OS X tries to eliminate small files with fragments when they are rewritten and when it can find contiguous free space to write the new file.
That can actually work against you, as it might fragment the free space also.
When a drive gets down to 20% free space there is a performance hit, you are using slower areas of the drive (inner tracks are usually 50% slower) and having more trouble finding filles and where to write files.
Clone Mac OS is one of the easiest and safest methods.
Click on source (Mac Harddrive), click on or drop the backup partition / drive into target icon.
Click "Run"
you end up with bootable (test it to be certain) exact copy.
Unplujg and keep it on a shelf
Update it before you inistall a new version etc of OS X or make changes.
Have two: one safe on the shelf from Week #1 and new Week #2
Disk Utility can do that.
With huge hard drives free space should not be an issue. The lack of a feature to defrag as part of Boot Camp or Disk Utility is why there are iDefrag and others, but they are slow and best run from.... a 2nd hard drive running OS X rather than from CD. and never great idea to do w/o backups or on live system.

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Disk utility first air problem information

I ran a disk utility first aid and i recieved an error message, what should i do? It reads
Volume bitmap needs minor repair
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Invalid volume free block count
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