Boot camp error

Tried to install windows using boot camp got to the screen where it asks to set the partition size, which i set to 100GB after 3 min i get a message saying "the disk cannot be partitioned because some files can't be moved" and HD needs to be formatted to extended journaled.
I was thinking of doing this can some confirm if its right or not:-
1: Backup mac using time machine
2: Insert Lion setup disc and format HDD to external journaled
3: Restore time machine backup.
Does a time machine backup everything like progams and settings ?
Thanks

I would suggest asking in the Boot Camp forum: https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp. Good luck.

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Instead of downloading the Windows support software from Boot Camp Assistant, download it from the Apple website. Mid 2009 and older MacBooks Pro only support this Windows support software version > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1630 This version allows you to install a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 version.
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I am trying to install Windows XP through boot camp and I have tried settting up using NTFS or FAT and when it go to the XP installation screen I kept getting an error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check).
Does anyone know if there is anyway to solve this issue?

Yeah, cray-z is right. Check that boot sector anti virus is turned off. If that is not the problem check your h/d jumper settings or try loading the default bios settings, and if still no luck write zeros to the first 50 (I think and I will probably be corrected) sectors in your hard drive. I had the same problem and when I called western digital these where the steps the customer service guy told me to follow.

Boot Camp Error Code: 0x80070570

Macbook Pro late 2013 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
This problem with installing windows through boot camp has had me frustrated to no ends the past few days.
I have an iso of window 7 home premium that for sure works because it worked when I installed window 7 on VMWare.
I created the bootable USB flash drive and downloaded the driver and installed windows (checked all three boxes when I started boot camp), and everything is fine until I get to the install windows screen. Copy files work but when it gets to expand files, I get this error message:
"Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupted or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570"
It says file may be corrupted or missing, but I have tried to burn the iso onto usb from boot camp and using window usb/dvd downloader tool to make the bootable usb flash drive. The iso file itself cannot be broken because it works on my virtual machine. I have also tried this with my windows 8.1 iso, which I also know for a fact works, and still gets the same error. Does the error come from burring the iso to the bootable USB flash drive? If thats the case, there is nothing that I know of to burn it better since I tried the build in boot camp one and the window usb/dvd tool.
This error is so annoying, and I been trying to install windows on my mac for the past few days to no avail.
Has anyone else found a fix for this problem?
It was much easier to install windows on the old macbook pro when it has an optical drive. Using the iso should be the same but I'm not sure why its not working, given my iso should be flawless.

To: Timothy Miller (and anyone else who might have input)
I'm having a somewhat related but somewhat different problem to the one you responded to a couple months ago in this thread.
I am also trying to create a partition on my Mac using Boot Camp Assistant in order to install Windows, and am also encountering an error from Boot Camp Assistant saying that I cannot complete the partition as wished.
My error message is slightly different from the one mentioned above. I already checked the solution you mentioned (checking the "enable journaling" button, and it is greyed out, because my hard drive was already enabled for journaling.
The error message I get from Boot Camps goes as follows:
"Unable to partition your hard drive because some files cannot be moved. Back up your disk. Use the disk utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Then restore information to the disk and try using the Boot Camp assistant again."
What does it mean "some files cannot be moved"?
I tried doing as it says, backed up all my data on my external hard drive, and went to disk utility to try to follow the error message's directions, but I'm not sure how exactly I format (or should I say re-format) my hard drive? I see options for erase, partition, and restore, but not format. I am guessing I probably need to erase it and then restore it from scratch? But disk utility won't let me erase my hard drive. Everything's "greyed out" and unclickable.
By the way, my computer is a 3 year old, 80 GB MacBook with Leopard 10.5.6.
Thanks

Boot Camp error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

Hi!
I am getting the error:
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I read up some on google, but all of them says that they have crated a partition and that is the problem, I only have the standard "Macintosh HD".
I tried to create a partition manually in disk utility but then the error message: "Partition failed with error message: Could not unmount disk."
Can anyone help me? It's driving me crazy.
Thanks.

This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!
Is it so hard to follow through? you were to have backup already, clones are best, then erase/format and restore.
Then partition.
Some have been able to use Disk Utility booted from OS X DVD or another drive, and repair the drive.
You have to use Boot Camp Assistant (99.9% anyway) to create and achieve a proper Windows Master Boot Record partition.

Boot Camp Error "You cannot partition an external disk drive"

Hi all - I am trying to install Windows XP Pro via Boot Camp for the first time. I have all four bays of my MacPro (circa 2007) filled with hard drives. I boot off the first bay, and have a cal digit raid card that controls the other three hard drives into a RAID5 array. I believe that the raid card may be the culprit.
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I cannot wipe my first drive/boot drive clean. I just wish to partition it via BC so I can switch between XP and Mac OSX. Any guidance is appreciated.
Thanks.
Tri

Try removing the other drives is almost always essential with a Mac Pro to get Windows to work. Even Windows 7 doesn't understand seeing Apple GPT/EFI during install - they can be reinstalled later.
Or it could be that any hardware RAID controller also has to be removed. Like Apple's Pro RAID or ATTO FC.
Even w/o the CalDigit and just Apple GPT you would have gotten an error message.
BCA is still after all these years unable to understand and work with a Mac Pro properly. A one-trick/ one-drive only utility that is stumped when it runs into a dual drive setup. Which way why I gave up on using Mac Pro for dual-boot and built some PCs just for Windows 7. I install Windows on PC, then transfer the drive to Mac Pro and it works just fine!
Xserve RAID Card: Boot Camp does not support RAID configurations
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2855

Boot camp error "Your disk could not be partitioned" Yosemite iMac

I been trying to boot camp windows 7 on my iMac for 2 days now. I tried several online suggestions but with no success. Everything will work fine until I get to Macintosh HD will be partitioned as, I pick the size and click install. BCA will start partitioning but then will stop and I get a message "Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partitioning the disk"
Would someone help me please
OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
iMac (21.5 inch, Mid 2010)
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            2.0 TB     disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              320.1 GB   disk1s1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD     *3.3 GB     disk2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD     *3.2 GB     disk3
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=2000398934016; sectorsize=512; blocks=3907029168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 3907029167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 3905349952      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3905759592     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3907029128           7
3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
3907029167           1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 3907029167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

The only supported method is to backup OSX, erase internal disk, restore from TM backup, and try BCA again.
Before you do this, one suggestion is to run Disk Utility Verify/Repair (twice) and a SMC Reset - Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support after each Repair.
Safe Mode can also help - OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? - Apple Support.

IMac Disc Utility and Boot Camp Error

So my friend just got a new 24" Intel iMac a few weeks ago and it had a bad super drive and memory, so he had to get it replaced. Bad start for a pc switcher. =P But the new one worked out ok. After a few days of going fine he randomly had a Gray screen pop up and he explained to me he fixed the problem by reinstalling macosx but keeping all his info (I did not see him do this) Since then, it's been going perfect he says without any hiccups. Jump forward 2 weeks later, today, I went over to his house to help set up boot camp for him. I started the assistant and attempting to split the HD to give Windows 50gb. It gave me an error saying there is something wrong with the startup disk check out disk utility to fix it. So naturally, I opened Disk Utility and ran a scan and it came up with this EXACT error-
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Checking Catalog file.
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Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
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Checking volume information.
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The volume The volume uter needs to be repaired.
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So I already had some reading done about how to repair this kind of thing previously so I placed the install DVD in and reboot holding "C". I then ran disk utility from there checking the HD once again and it came up the same exact error so I told it to repair and it gave me a message saying it repaired whatever issues it had. Assuming everything was okay I reboot and tried boot camp once again. Which it then gave the same error as before that stopped the HD from successfully splitting. So I reran the disk utility and it gave me the exact error I posted above, nothing changed. But the catch is, nothing else seems wrong. Programs run fine and things seem to be going smoothly in his every day use of the computer. Only thing he noticed a few times was when on boot up it just stays at the white screen instead of loading the startup disk (which is easily solved by just holding option) But he made it sound like this only happened a couple times. I noticed a few "fake error messages" that Apple mentions in their support files but I am not familiar enough to know what is what and if it's a fake message why doesn't boot camp work? Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi
If running Disk Utility from the install disk gave you & your friend the same error & could not fix it, then your friend will need either DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro to solve it.
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To: Timothy Miller (and anyone else who might have input)
I'm having a somewhat related but somewhat different problem to the one you responded to a couple months ago in this thread.
I am also trying to create a partition on my Mac using Boot Camp Assistant in order to install Windows, and am also encountering an error from Boot Camp Assistant saying that I cannot complete the partition as wished.
My error message is slightly different from the one mentioned above. I already checked the solution you mentioned (checking the "enable journaling" button, and it is greyed out, because my hard drive was already enabled for journaling.
The error message I get from Boot Camps goes as follows:
"Unable to partition your hard drive because some files cannot be moved. Back up your disk. Use the disk utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Then restore information to the disk and try using the Boot Camp assistant again."
What does it mean "some files cannot be moved"?
I tried doing as it says, backed up all my data on my external hard drive, and went to disk utility to try to follow the error message's directions, but I'm not sure how exactly I format (or should I say re-format) my hard drive? I see options for erase, partition, and restore, but not format. I am guessing I probably need to erase it and then restore it from scratch? But disk utility won't let me erase my hard drive. Everything's "greyed out" and unclickable.
By the way, my computer is a 3 year old, 80 GB MacBook with Leopard 10.5.6.
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Any suggestions?

Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & Windows, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forums are at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology. Here is a link;
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I am running 10.4.10 on a MacBook Pro. I also sometimes run the boot camp OS (XP) with Fusion. (But I booted via Boot Camp when I attempted the update.)
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Message was edited by: robmak
sorry -- just noticed I posted to wrong forum. Reposted to boot camp forum

Critical to the Vista - 7 upgrade was disabling startups and services that were not Microsoft.
The Win 7 was booting for teh first time and choking on one of these services.
After 7 succeeded, I did a complete backup, updated windows completely and started adding back the services. Nothing vital seemed to kill it. The updates may have been important but you can't get to them if the initial upgrade fails because of teh service-related crashes.
After that, I fixed audio with the Realtek drivers.
The Magic Mouse still isn't working, but maybe I can write back with that since the web lit is dicey.

Boot camp error running!

Hello
i'm trying to run bootcamp but didn't work showing an error
You must update your computer's boot rom firmware before using this setup assistant!
SMC Version (system): 1.30f3
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
I tried to download the update from here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237 but it says this computer doesn't need this update !
how to update it ?
Thanks.* i purchased this copy of mac!

obviously the error is in error!
zap the pram
as long as you install Windows 7 on its own hard drive you don't even need Boot Camp Assistant except to download Apple drivers. Just boot Windows DVD and format and install. voila.

Strange Boot Camp Error

I successfully installed Windows XP onto my Macbook and am able to swap between both Mac OS X and Windows just fine. However, when I want to open up Boot Camp assistant, or restart to the windows partition of the mac, I get an error message that states:
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so you resolved the problem I may have. Great! Now you post the solution in the 'firmware' section of discussions with no link. After posing the question here? ***?
I find myself wishing you'd just kept silent. esp[ecially if I can't search up you post. Firmware section?

Reformatting HD after boot camp error

Okay, I was trying to install windows 7 along w/ snow leopard on my 13" macbook pro with bootcamp, when in the middle of partitioning my drive I got the error message "boot camp disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved."
so i read up on different forums, so I accepted the fact I needed to backup all of my data and restore it. So I went out and bought a HD ($50 for a 320GB - not bad) during black friday and I backed up all of my data through time machine.
So my questions is, what do I do now? do I open up the disk utility and reformat it to a single drive Mac OS Extended Journaled. Or, I heard somewhere you put in your installation CD for mac OS and press 'c' or something. so I'm quite confused on that
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any advice is appreciated
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