Bootcamp stuck on partitioning disk

I've made enought room on my hard drive, and when i try bootcamp, it always gets stuck here
Is it because i partitioned wrong?

raghav malhotra wrote:
bootcamp is stuck on partitioning disk once i needed to restore to only mac.
so is there any way out to uninstall windows manually?
Yes,
1. clone your OSX partition to an external drive
2. erase the internal drive
3. restore the backup

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