I messed up in boot camp.

Okay, admittedly this one is probably my fault, but I was trying to fix boot camp, which was loading slowly, and now it doesn't work at all. So I try to delete that partition and start over again, but it comes up with a message of "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition" and "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
When I go to Disk Utilities I can see my Macintosh HD split into two sections, "Macintosh HD" and "Untitled". I know that Untitled was at one point my Windows partition because it has 50 GB of space, as I set it as, but I can't enable journaling as it is greyed out.
How would I go about fixing this problem and restoring my Macbook Pro to it's original single partition?

Well, that was embarrasingly easy. Thanks!

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OK So here's what I've done..
I removed my optical drive, inserted a hard drive caddy, moved my main 750GB hard drive to this location, installed a brand new 250GB SSD, installed Mavericks on said SSD, and booted up. Everything was happy. But now I have 550 GB of my 750GB taken up by my old install of OSX. I took all of my files off, put them on an external drive, and formatted the OSX Journaled portion of the hard drive to ExFat. This, of course, broke the ability to boot from Windows.
My goal:
250GB SSD: OSX
750 Hard Drive: 200GB to Windows, the remaining in a format writable to both Windows and Mac. (which is why I chose ExFat).
And, obviously, the ability to boot from either.
What do I do? I don't have any of my original install media from Windows (I think it was a W7 install that I upgraded with a download to W8 from M$'s website). I'd like to retain everything that's installed there already on BC and just repair it somehow. I've read around that ReFit might help. I'm willing to try it if the general consensus says that's the way to go.
Also, I've noticed that when I changed my user account to be able to store on my ExFat drive, that it can never finish indexing and I can't install dropbox. Is there a better solution to what I'm trying to do?

So, since I got no bites here... How about this...
I formatted that ExFat partition to a Mac OS Journaled partition, and my computer seems to be working great. I will keep it like this. Anyone know how to repair that Windows install from BootCamp?

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A few months ago I went through trying out boot camp and parallels. Now, I think something is messed up. I dont need either right now, so I just want to wipe out the whole system, repartition the drive, and restore to a blank new install of os x 10.5 leopard.
But when I put in the install disk, it wont boot up off it.
I tried holding down the c key while powering it up, and it just cycles through: hearing the drive whirl, a bling sound, and then repeating it again while the screen is blank. Finally, I held down the click button on the touch pad so it would eject the install disk.
Maybe this will help someone recognize part of the problem. Ever since messing around with boot camp and parallels, my machine wont "reboot". To reboot it, I tell it to reboot, then it hangs on the star like screen, then I have to hold the power button down, then if I do nothing, it tries to boot, but ends up in a dos looking screen saying no bootable device. So when I power it back up, I hold down the alt key, and then I have one choice: the hard drive. I pick that and it boots up ok.
So... I thought, well, maybe the boot camp is still messed up; maybe I should undo boot camp. When I start the boot camp assistant, there is only a "partition" and "back" button; nothing to "restore" the hard drive to just one partition.
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Forgot to specify:
Im using an older Unibody Macbook (back when they were not all macbook pro's) 2008ish with Snow leopard 1.6.8
The thread you linked me to, Eric, shows the guy 'Niganit' with the eXACT SAME PROBLEM as me! He seems to have found out the problem but I dont see his resolve.
I just dont have the option to install windows 7 in any other form that a cd
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How to create extra partitions for windows 7 after installing boot camp

hello
i am pretty new at imac so bare with me and i really need help.
IMAC
OS X version 10.9.5 ( i think its os X mavericks ??)
iMac 21. inch , Late 2013
iMac model identifier iMac 14,1
i installed boot camp windows 7 and it works perfectly, after i tried to create two partition using disk utility for windows 7 (ms-dos) format because i really want to separate my files on other partition instead of everything on Boot Camp drive. after i restart choosing windows OS i cannot go back to windows 7.
i hold option on the keyboard but does not show window 7 so i went back to Apple ox s , found my boot camp hd on the desktop with files in it. checked boot camp assistance showing
" The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. "
i read alot of article about but i don't seem to understand much about
i understand alot of people created these kind of topics
please if someone can help me solve this problem again
i only want an apple os , boot camp for windows 7 and 2 extra partitions for storage , my hard drive is 1TB
thank you

Last login: Mon Feb 16 16:11:46 on console
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.0 GB     disk1s1
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
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 1953525167
       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 1951845952      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1952255592     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1953525128           7
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$
Also i do not have boot camp installed yet because like i said, it messed up my boot camp after i created the partition thats why i removed boot camp, right now i only have APPLE OS

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I've been messing around with Boot Camp the last couple of days and I finally got windows xp SP2 to running, however I ended up deleting the partition so I could make it bigger. When I tried to make the partition again boot camp told me to repair my drive with disc utility. I ended up doing it from the installation disc and did the repair from there no problems. When I get back to boot camp it tells me to run disc utility to repair? Any help would be great!

Backup to another drive. 'nuke your current partitions and use the Partition tab in Disk Utility to set as 1 Untitled (rather than "current") and you'll be fine.
BCA needs to find one large free unfragmented contiguous chunk. Also, drives reformatted with Leopard (fresh) do better than systems upgraded in some manner from Tiger to Leopard. Partition maps seem better.
Lots and lots and lots of threads that are 100% identical to yours floating around - daily occurrence. Everyone that 'cuts it short' and wants larger, cutting corners, not planning for growth.
Plan for SP3 which will be out eventually, sooner more than later.
If you don't need to run native Windows, then Fusion/Parallels is a lot less troublesome.

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2) Use add/remove to remove apple's drivers and try reinstalling them. My fear is the drivers will simply not install at all(the original problem).
3) Is there another option?
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I saw exactly the same issues (Error 2869 and 2755) when attempting to install drivers from the OSX install disk after installing Windows XP Professional SP2.
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Mac drivers then installed with no issues.

10.4.11 update messes with Boot Camp beta

I am posting this again as my post is way down another discussion.
I did the update yeterday without knowing about the bug. Now Windows XP won't start up in boot camp. This is really annoying. Mac OS X boots fine.
So. Can I downgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.4.6 without having to reinstall all the other applications? What about Boot Camp? Is this an option I select from the utilities available on the install disk?
What about archive and install? Will that archive all my applications and data so I don't have to do reinstalls?
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http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/11/bewareboot_camp_plus_mac_os1.php
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/26/tiger.update.data.loss/
As you can see - I've been looking around a lot!
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I have the same problem with controling the brightness of my external monitor ( Apple Cinema display) while running Windows
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I messed up boot camp...

yesterday I used boot camp to add windows vista and it was working fine, until today when I added an external hard drive, but when I saw a picture of a hard drive on my desktop with about 32GB of storage it didn't dawn on me that it was the partitioned windows part of my internal hard drive, so I thought it was the new hard drive with only 10% showing so I formatted the partitioned part of the internal hard drive for windows, and now windows isn't up anymore and boot camp won't do anything... How do I fix it?
Thanks - Andrew

Bad news - sorry to hear about this error, it is a permanent one too.
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To destroy data it takes hours using a data shredder, while formatting only takes a minute. You should get used to the idea that you need to install Windows again from scratch (using Boot Camp). If, however, you need the data that was there, then you need to Google and search these Boards to find out how to do that. In fact I recall there is a software one can buy which recovers lost data - don't have a clue what it was called though.
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