Difficulty in partitioning HD for installing Windows
I am attempting to install windows using bootcamp and windows 8.1. I have a MB Pro 13inch, no optical drive. I have made an .iso version on another computer, saved it on my MB pro, plugged in an empty flash drive, 16GB, and continued with bootcamp assistant, and constantly get the message when getting to the partitioning of my HD, that files can't be moved in order to create the partition. Disk utility says that my HD is the appropriate format (single partition, Mac OS extended (journaled), I have verified the disk, and even reinstalled OS X, then repeated the process of using bootcamp, still with the same error message, that I can't partition the disk and files have to be moved! How do I get around this one?
1. What year is your Mac? It may or may not support USB installation.
2. You have insufficient contiguous disk space for partitioning to work properly. Backup your OSX installation, use Internet Recovery (OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support) and erase your internal disk, restore from backup and try BCA partitioning again.
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Is that the case, or can the partition for Windows be whatever size you want?
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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!!
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Then partition.
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nikasv wrote:
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Hi there!
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Here is the previous thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5164969 (Ignore my last comment in the thread, I fixed it)
I'm thinking I can probably still get around my issue by using the plist file I just don't know anything about how that kind of stuff works.
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virtualization VMware Fusion to see what they require to work.
They too may be unable to support Windows 8.x version if the
hardware in the computer is not capable of running it. So the
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http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion
•Apple - Support - BootCamp:
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Not sure if some tweak to BootCamp is the answer to hardware.
A change to a preference file (plist) may not be an answer there.
There may be a way in Terminal to modify how some things work;
but that is a topic outside a basic MacBooks/BootCamp discussion.
You may look into the BootCamp topics to see if someone has a
similar inquiry posted there.
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HT5639 Are there inherent security risks for installing windows operating systems on a mac?
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ENVY Touchsmart 15 J000 Series (J001TX) Optional mSATA slot for installing Windows?
I wanted to ask
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5. Is the interface of the mSATA slot SATA II or SATA III?
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View Solution.Tornado7 wrote:
I wanted to ask
1. whether we can install a mSATA drive of 60-120 GB in the mSATA slot and use it as the place to install Windows? Would it be like having a dual hard disc setup if windows is installed on the mSATA and the 5400 rpm HDD is formatted? I know this might affect the warranty but still i am curious.
2. Also is any particular mSATA drive models whitelisted/blacklisted by HP?
3. When we install a mSATA drive in the bay, does it affect the max RAM which we can use?
4. What is the size of the mSATA drive that would fit in the slot available?
5. Is the interface of the mSATA slot SATA II or SATA III?
Hi,
Q1: Yes you can install Windows on a mSATA module on this laptop..
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-envy-hdx/729085-envy-15t-j000-msata-ssd-hdd-fresh-install-msata-b...
I recommend to remove the hard drive if the how to doesn't say that. A mSATA module is compatible so I don't think it will affect the warranty.
Q2: Hard to answer this one but some guys already confirmed that Samsung PM830 256GB drives work with this series. Some other models also work, just search this forum..
Q3: The mSATA can be used as cache or a boot drive. If it's going to be used as cache it won't work with 12GB or more according to the manual for the laptop series. If it's going to be used as a boot drive there shouldn't be any limitation so you may use the max 16GB or so.
Q4: mSATA is a standard/interface/format so any mSATA SSD should fit the slot, the capacity doesn't matter.
Q5: As I said mSATA is an interface (slot), SATA II or III (speed) is a matter of the chipset on the motherboard. It's the same case like the typical SATA connection. The connectors and slots are the same but the speed is based by the chipset..
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