Cant create partition for bootcamp

I open up Boot Camp Assistant, select Install Windows 7 then i divide my windows partition to 350 GB and click Install with the Windows 7 disk inserted... but it still says wait for the disk to be recognised and doesnt go through...
If i remember correctly, on Snow Leopard it was first creating the partition and then it was working perfectly...
Any clues?

Are you referring to the Windows disc Boot Camp isn't recognising? Perhaps try putting the disc back in the disc drive and then try opening Boot Camp Assistant and continue with the installation of Windows through the Boot Camp Assistant. In order to install Windows, the Boot Camp Assistant would ask you how much space you wish to allocate to the Windows install (for you to use once Windows is fully installed). If you set "divide equally" it would shrink the existing Mac OS X partition of the hard drive and create a new partition on the extra space that would then be available to use, which it would create a Windows-compatible partition for Windows to use. So 2 partitions would be on the hard drive now. So when you launch Boot Camp again, you can go to the "Install Windows 7" option straight away, as I'm presuming Boot Camp already created the separate Windows-compatible partition on the hard drive.

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Strange error when Bootcamp attempts to create partition for Windows

I get a strange error when I tell Bootcamp to create a partition for Windows. I get to the Create a Partition stage. I select 20GB for Windows leaving 91GB (39GB free) for OS X. I then click Partition and it gives me the following error
*The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.*
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.
My disk is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), I have closed all applications (besides Bootcamp Assistant) and I have even restarted and tried again to see if that might help. Nothing. I can't get it to partition. Any thoughts? Can I partition my disk manually through disk utility and then select it in Bootcamp?

Hi,
this gets asked at least a thousand times by now.
Have a look at this thread for solution http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10540273&#10540273
Regards
Stefan

Created partition without bootcamp, now i can't delete it

Hi Everyone,
I was trying to install Windows 8 on my Late 2011 MBP and it was not possible with Bootcamp. I tried it and got an interesting error like 'No bootable device...'. Then i decided to try to install Windows 8 without Bootcamp. Created a partition by Disk Utility on OS X, booted by Windows 8 Installer USB stick, deleted and formatted the partition by Windows 8 Installer. But still, i was not able to install Windows 8, don't know why.
Now, my problem is that i don't care about Windows 8 no more, i just want to merge the Mac partition and empty partition but i can't. In disk utility (in OS X), i don't see any allocated space, but if i boot by Windows 8 Installer, there are partitions or allocated spaces created by it and i can see all the partitions. I don't know what to do, how can i merge the partitions for using it in OS X? I think i need some serious help.
If there is nothing to do, i will create a backup of my files in an external drive and delete the internal drive. Will it work? But i don't want to do this since i have lots of files and my Mac uses usb 2.0 port.
P.S: I think it is not important but specifications of my Mac are:
Late 2011 MacBook Pro 15'', i7 2.4 GHz, AMD HD6770M 1 GB, 8 GB of RAM, Samsung EVO 840 120 GB SSD, Hitachi Travelstar 7k1000 1 TB HD, no optical drive.

Using Bootcamp Assistant re-arranges your partitions in a specific order, which is EFI/ESP, OSX, OSX Recovery HD, BC/Windows. If you do not use BCA to remove Windows but use Disk Utility to manipulate the BC/Windows partition, BC/Windows can be deleted, but Recovery HD will not let you merge disk space back into OSX partition. BCA while removing also rearranges Recovery HD to emerge the freed space back into your main OSX partition.
This is why it is recommended that DU should not be used to change partitions, if BCA is also used.
BCA creates a Hybrid MBR, while a straight W8 installer uses EFI to boot on 2013+ Macs, but prior Macs, like the 2011 MBPs do not fully support W8 direct installation.
In either case, as tbirdvet suggests, the recourse now is to back up, use Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R - you must see a spinning globe), erase your internal disk, and restore from backup.
Please also see OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support.
Thanks, i think it seems like this is the only solution, luckily, since the system is on the ssd i don't have to reinstall the OS. Now i am creating a backup then i will erase the disk and load my backup.
Since you have two physical drives, being treated as two separate disks, depending on which disk you were manipulating for Windows, you may have to erase one or both drives.
If the second disk (HDD) was your Windows destination, and you removed the original built-in Optical drive, BCA set the system to boot from the unavailable Optical drive which resulted in 'No bootable device' error.

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Found this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=630&tstart=0
Setup:
Single 500GB drive
2 Partitions - 1 Mac OS, other Windows NTFS
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gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 162338320      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
162747960    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
164017496 323990184
488007680 488765440      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0
geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 162338320] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 162747960 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 488007680 - 488765440] Win95 FAT32L

cranberry667 wrote:
Yes by 'here' he means post the url of the new thread containing the information he asked for, in the same thread(main thread). Have i missed something here? It seems pretty easy to understand from the quote I just gave you.
I mean i didn't even have to go back one page in the main thread to understand what he wanted people to do.
A page back:
Christopher Murphy:
I suggest starting a new thread and posting the relevant information there, and then post the URL in this thread so I get a notification. This thread is too unweildy to keep track of multiple people's issues. Thanks.
I did the sensible thing. I just didn't make myself clear in the OP.
You have yet to tell us whether or not you posted the link in the original thread, did you?

Help? Trying to create partition for Windows...

Okay so I'm trying to create a partition for Windows XP and I go to the Boot Camp Assistant and I have it set to 32 GB and I click partition and it says that I have to "repair the disk." So I go to the Disk Utitlity and I tried verifying my Mac HD and it couldn't even verify. Here's the description:
Verifying volume "Macintosh HD"
Performing live verification
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking Extents Overflow file
Checking Catalog file
Incorrect number of thread records
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files
Checking Catalog hierarchy
Checking Extended Attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed
Someone please tell me what does this all mean and tell me how to make the error go away

Hello akl88066
To repair the Macintosh volume, you will need to boot and make the repairs from the install disk as described in the link below!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8492.html
Dennis

Error when trying to partition for Bootcamp

Evening everyone,
I use parallels at the moment but have a piece of software which isn't quite behaving itself. As I have just upgraded to leopard, I thought I would see if setting up Bootcamp and running it in there would solve the problem. I freed up plenty of disk space but when trying to create a 10GB partition in the setup assistant I got this error:
'The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. 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.'
I don't know much about the technical side of my computer - partitioning and formatting etc so that message sounds all very scary to me. Is it saying I need to wipe my hard drive and re-format it? It is already formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If so, can I do that from my Time Machine backups? it sounds like a really drastic action. Also, could this be anything to do with my current Parallels software?
Thanks very much for your time, any help would be much appreciated!

when you say "plenty of disk space" how much exactly is that?
that message indicates that bootcamp assistant couldn't find big enough chunk of contiguous free space to create a bootcamp partition. this happens due to disk fragmentation.
at the minimum you should boot from the leopard install DVD and repair the hard drive (repair disk, not permissions).
If you still want to install bootcamp you need to defrag your hard drive. there are several ways to do it. you can use 3rd party software like idefrag. You can clone your disk to an external drive using a 3rd party cloner like CCCloner or Superduper. then boot from the clone and clone it back to the main drive. Or, if you have time machine, you can restore your system from a TM backup. that will also defrag your hard drive. To do that boot from the install DVD and select 'restore system from backup" from the Utilities menu at the top. that seems to be the suggestion the message you saw makes.
also, keep in mind that you need to keep plenty of free space (>15%) on your OS X partition to avoid disk fragmentation problems.
Message was edited by: V.K.

Unable to create partition for solaris 10

I have windows 7 installed in my vaio, and want to install solaris 10. I have 190 gb of space. Which I divided as
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2. 65 gb
3. 65 gb
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2. It support Speed/Duplex-Force mode, you can set it through rtls.conf file.
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native, VID_1113_DID_1211 for Accton and VID_1186_DID_1301 for
D-Link in the install script.
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a. Power-off your PC and insert your RTL8139 adapter.
b. Boot-up you Solaris/x86 and login as "root".
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"Install".
e. If the PCI ID for your RTL8139 adapter is not VID_10EC_DID_8139
or VID_1113_DID_1211 or VID_1186_DID_1301, you can modify the
"Install" file to match your PCI ID, VID_ABCD_DID_WXYZ for example,
modify the "pci1186,1301" to "pciABCD,WXYZ".
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It asks me to choose which partition to load windows on, but on each one, including bootcamp, it's says it cannot install on that partition. Have deleted partition, started again only for the same thing to happen..........Help

page 22: Options Advanced: format "BOOTCAMP" (MSDOS/FAT) to NTFS.
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Installation Guide Instructions for all features and settings.
Boot Camp 4.0 FAQ Get answers to commonly asked Boot Camp questions.
Windows 7 FAQ Answers to commonly asked Windows 7 questions.
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Hi All
My Mbox no longer works on Snow Leopard. Digidesign have refused to create drivers...b*stards....!!
So, I am trying to create a new partition on my HD with Leopard 10.5 in order to get around this and am having major problems doing so...
Before I list the problems, is my MBP 2.4 restricted from doing this? Will it let me install an older operating system on the new partition, or not? I've seen references to not being able to install Tiger etc, is it the same in this situation?
Thanks
Al

If your MBP OEM disc has 10.5.x you are fine.
If you had Leo 10.5.x on it and working prevously, sure, why not?
And you can always try on a spare external first.
Should definitely have backups first, then just shrink your current partition to make room (if it will A) leave enough on SL to run and be safe; B) large enough for Leo and to hold your applications and data.
The 2nd external drive - maybe clone what you have now to USB etc and insure that works first, then take that off line, and wipe the internal drive and try installing Leo.
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Cant create billing for STO delivery?

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Ok, will continue this discussion. Only with the clear discussion our understandings/assumptions will be clarified perfectly.
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even i didnt get actual expected reply- i have recognized their contribution interms of time n skill. awarded accordingly, which shows concern towards my fellow mates- who is trying to help me- I appreciate all of them.
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>
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