Disk Utility after trying to partition

Okay, so I've read a lot of discussions about partitioning, but none of them seem to match my situation.
After I run Bootcamp, I get the 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."
Then, when I go into Disk Utility - Partition, everything is shaded such that I can't change it [but it says that is in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)] and then another portion is shaded.
I have backed-up my data, but when it refers to 'disk' I'm a little bit confused. Does this mean HD? Still new to Mac.
Thanks,
Cristi
Oh yea, I noticed there was a SP-2 for windows on this site. Is this so that it can be installed with the disc (that doesn't have SP-2)? If not, can someone please offer a cheap alternative to this? I have a ton of XP disc with SP-1

I don't know if this will solve your answer caz I do not understand the question
and yes disc mean HD that's first, second to install BootCamp your HD must be a single partition ( You must only have one partition ) if not formate the HD and install the BOOTCAMP while it is single formated.
hope it helps

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Hi. Trying to connect iomega ext. HD. i have to reformat for Mac. When i plug in & go to Disk Utility,the external shows up and i'm supposed to click "partition". When i do, a box comes up saying ""Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility." I quit and relaunched, same results. After googling my question, i came up with this:
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Quit Disk Utility.
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iTunes.pkg
iTunes4.pkg
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Open Disk Utility and repair disk permissions again.
Quit Disk Utility.
Put the removed iTunes receipts back in /Library/Receipts.
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Incorrect owner flags for directory hard link (id = 998972)
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Incorrect owner flags for directory hard link (id = 998974)
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Incorrect owner flags for directory hard link (id = 998976)
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Incorrect owner flags for directory hard link (id = 998978)
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Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
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It does say that the disk is verified when I run that. Everything seems to be working normally.

A few posts below yours is this one:
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I do not like the idea of "just ignore", that starts to sound like Microsoft "do not worry about that blue screen just reboot"
Whether you like the idea or not, they are merely warnings.
Please search these forums before posting something that has been posted dozens of times before and answered as many times. Always search before posting.

Disk Utility: after creating the .DMG (compressed image) When "scan image for restore" finishes it displays "unable to scan (internal error)". Since the process was scanning for about 1 hr is this a fake warning?

External 500GB drive is partitioned with 400GB for Mac OS extended (journalling) and 2nd partition formatted today as "ExFAT".
Yesterday I tried to create a disk image of my HD to no avail - this was compressed on a FAT partition. I got a warning after running the <scan image for restore> saying "unable to scan (internal error)"
I rang Apple support who suggested formatting a partition as MAC OS extended (journalling) and choose to save the image as "read/write'. The image process stopped writing at about 200GB and then the file size jumped to 499GB (ie the size of the HD). But the process did nothing for about an hour so I foce quit disk utility (as suggested by apple support)
My current attempt was to format the external drive again; this time with a 400GB Mac OS extended (journal) format; plus a 100GB ExFAT format partition. The new image was created after about 2.5hrs with a compressed size of 149GB. However, after running the "scan image for restore" facility I got the warning message "unable to scan filename " (internal error). The process was scanning the image file according to the progress bar - this took about hour - thus the warning is a puzzle.
If anyone can say more about this error I would really appreciate knowing tips for using disk utility. The screen grab is below.
"unable to scan filename " (internal error)
thanks

Thanks for a quick reply <baltwo>. You’ve answered that it is not a fake message!
fyi: I thought that I would use my external Buffalo for two purposes; namely the smaller ExFAT partition for copying stuff to my win7 netbook. The larger partition was to be used as my imac image of SL. So this was my first attempt at using disk utility - the idea being to hold an image backup at another location. Plus I now have the Lion thumbdrive ready to upgrade from SL and so being cautious wanted to have a SL image backup
Anyway I followed the apple instructions using my mac 10.6.3 install DVD but it would appear from other discussions that <unable to scan (internal error)> is not unique to me.
I’ll get back to apple telephone support for further advice.
I would though be grateful for an “idiots’ guide to making an image backup of my internal HD that runs SL 10.6.8
eg should I have just one partition on the external USB drive? format it as Mac OS extended? create the image as compressed or read/write? Basically I’ll do whatever will work!!
thanks again

Disk Utility hanging on Erase/Partition OR Howto backup a dual boot Mactel?

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Problem is whenever I try to either Erase format a hard drive using my usb2 external enclosure, Disk Util just kinda freaks, not really doing anything, and after a minute or so becomes the program becomes unresponsive. Luckily the rest of my system keeps on working, and I can just force quite disk util. But when I try to shutdown/restart my system I'm forced to do a hard power down.
I've tried leaving Disk Util running overnight, thinking it was just needing a little extra time to get thru the process, but nothing changed when I woke. And a gave the macbook a good hour to shutdown cleanly, but it stays stuck with the blue screen and the spinning gray wheel at the very end of teh shutdown cycle.
Looking at the disk util log (after force quiting and restarting the util) it will simply say:
Aug 12 03:24:09: Disk Utility started.
Preparing to erase : “Mb”
Creating Partition Map
Aug 12 03:25:50: Disk Utility started.
I've also tried running disk util off the osx install cd (tiger 10.4.6), but i get what seems to be identical behavior, and i have to manually turn off the macbook.
I've tried this with two hard drives with identical results. In Windows (boot camp) im able to format the partition fine, but it only does ntfs because of the drive's size (and I'm not trying to use a windows fs anyway).
I plugged the usb hd into a powerbook, and used a 10.4.0 retail cd to run disk util (no hd in the powerbook) and its able to erase/partition the disks just fine. I can then plug them back into the macbook and theyre recognized just fine. But its PPC system and doesnt offer for gtp partitioning which I'm thinking will be a problem because ultimately I'm trying to use this drive to do bootable backups of my macbook.
I'd like to figure out what is wrong with Disk Util. But even if i get the partitioning working, i have the larger problem of -how- to backup the macbook's hd onto an identical sized hd (80 gigs), that will make both osx and windows bootable backups that I can restore off of.
One thought was to use the unix utility dd, and just do a bitwise copy of one disk to another. Any idea if this would work?
Another option would be manually creating the partitions myself, and then backing up each of the drives seperately. Not sure if I could even make a bootable backup of windows from within osx.
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*can be automated, or at best a few simple steps that can be done once and then walked away from
Thanks for the help
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I'm trying to use Disk Utility to format an external usb hd as HFS+ for backing up my Macbook. Running 10.4.7 and Disk Util 10.5.6 (latest version afaik)
Problem is whenever I try to either Erase format a hard drive using my usb2 external enclosure, Disk Util just kinda freaks, not really doing anything, and after a minute or so becomes the program becomes unresponsive. Luckily the rest of my system keeps on working, and I can just force quite disk util. But when I try to shutdown/restart my system I'm forced to do a hard power down.
I've tried leaving Disk Util running overnight, thinking it was just needing a little extra time to get thru the process, but nothing changed when I woke. And a gave the macbook a good hour to shutdown cleanly, but it stays stuck with the blue screen and the spinning gray wheel at the very end of teh shutdown cycle.
Looking at the disk util log (after force quiting and restarting the util) it will simply say:
Aug 12 03:24:09: Disk Utility started.
Preparing to erase : “Mb”
Creating Partition Map
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I've also tried running disk util off the osx install cd (tiger 10.4.6), but i get what seems to be identical behavior, and i have to manually turn off the macbook.
I've tried this with two hard drives with identical results. In Windows (boot camp) im able to format the partition fine, but it only does ntfs because of the drive's size (and I'm not trying to use a windows fs anyway).
I plugged the usb hd into a powerbook, and used a 10.4.0 retail cd to run disk util (no hd in the powerbook) and its able to erase/partition the disks just fine. I can then plug them back into the macbook and theyre recognized just fine. But its PPC system and doesnt offer for gtp partitioning which I'm thinking will be a problem because ultimately I'm trying to use this drive to do bootable backups of my macbook.
I'd like to figure out what is wrong with Disk Util. But even if i get the partitioning working, i have the larger problem of -how- to backup the macbook's hd onto an identical sized hd (80 gigs), that will make both osx and windows bootable backups that I can restore off of.
One thought was to use the unix utility dd, and just do a bitwise copy of one disk to another. Any idea if this would work?
Another option would be manually creating the partitions myself, and then backing up each of the drives seperately. Not sure if I could even make a bootable backup of windows from within osx.
I know I'm not the only one running boot camp and looking to have reliable backups. What are other people doing to address this issue.
Ideally I would like to find a solution that:
*creates an identical disk with two bootable partitions
*can be automated, or at best a few simple steps that can be done once and then walked away from
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In disk utility, after an erase of my HD, it still shows used file space. How do I completely erase the HD?

My computer wouldn't boot past the white screen and after trying a few things, I was able to find the original installation CD, hold C while turning the computer on and get into disk utility. I tried running a repair on the HD and it said the disk could not be repaired. I tried restoring from a backup, but about 20 min into the installation, I got a message saying the installation couldn't be completed.
I decided to try and just completely erase the HD from disk utility then try the installation again. However, after I try erasing the HD, it still shows there is used space, six folders and two files.
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From what you wrote, your disk may be altered or dying. Diskutility shall give you full report after testing disk integrity, but it seems you'll have to change your hdd pretty soon.
Anyway, what you see as "250.06GB ... Media" is your physical hdd. Macintosh HD or any name your hdd have under MacOS is just a partition on this hdd. But MacOS needs others hidden partitions for EFI and recovery, for instance, which take some space even if you don't see it.
If you really want an install from scratch, you may click on the Media line displaying your hdd, go to erase tab and write another partition table. Afterward, create a single partition and installa MacOS. If your disk is dammaged, it won't repair it.

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Hello all,
I am trying to install Windows 7 on my Mac via Bootcamp assistant, every time i try to partition it fails at around 1/3 of the way through, saying "Some files cannit be moved". I have also tried to install manually using Disk Utility and booting into that partition for install, but again the partition fails, this time saying "Partition cannot be resized".
In terms of trying to fix this, i have used iDefrag to defragement the hard drive, backed up, formatted and restored the hard drive from the install disks, repaired the disk from the install disks and spent hours looking on the web. Is a complete reinstall what is necessary here?
NB - I have tried all these on both my Macs and the same result each time, so i'd say it has to be OS related(im running the latest version of Snow Lepard of both)
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And what computers are you trying to do this on? Model/year, etc, would be very helpfull.
cameron222 wrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to install Windows 7 on my Mac via Bootcamp assistant, every time i try to partition it fails at around 1/3 of the way through, saying "Some files cannit be moved".......................................
That means there are files that aren't allowed to be moved that are in the way of the new install. You have to defrag the whole HD or backup your files and erase/reformat the whole HD in order to fix it. With you using iDefrag it should have fixed that problem. Did you defrag it from another HD or from the DVD as some defrag utilitys won't work right if you do it from the start up disk.
cameron222 wrote:
........................................... I have also tried to install manually using Disk Utility and booting into that partition for install, but again the partition fails, this time saying "Partition cannot be resized"................................................
Not sure what you mean by "tried to install manually............" Disk Utility (BC Assistant) has to be the one to partition it first. The W7 installer will the do the formatting, NTSF, fat32, etc,.
Partition cannot be resized is a problem that crops up some times for what ever reason and I'm not sure of the fix for that, usually an erase/format is the only way to fix it. Again, Disk Utility has to be the one to change the partition scheme. Larger or smaller, and it's fairly dangerous to change the size of a partition after the fact.
...........................In terms of trying to fix this, i have used iDefrag to defragement the hard drive, backed up, formatted and restored the hard drive from the install disks, repaired the disk from the install disks and spent hours looking on the web. Is a complete reinstall what is necessary here?................................
Not exactly sure here either?
Did you do the WHOLE hd, completely erased then formatted it back to ONE partition? Then have Boot Camp Assistant repartition it for the Windows install?
Is a complete reinstall what is necessary here?
Isnt that what you just did?
I would just back-up your files to another HD and just start all over.
Erase the WHOLE drive, partition as ONE whole section, format it, install 10.6x again, update everything first, then have Boot Camp Assistant start the whole process again and it should be fine.
Make sure you leave enough room for Windows to grow so you don't have to do this again. The last game I installed was 8 gigs, if you add another 5 games that are around 5 gigs each then you just added 33 gigs with just a few games installed, not counting the size of the saves, etc. A 50 gig Windows partition isn't goiung to last very long.

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