Partitioning issues?

I have a MacBook Pro 15.4 inches running Mac OS Lion. I was trying to install windows 7 using boot camp but I keep running into this issue where it gives me this error message:
"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 tried using Disc Utility. I first tried to create a backup on an external Hard drive but it didn't work. It said the file was too large. I had plenty of space. Where do I create the backup then and how do I restore the backup? I have a single partitioned drive.
Alternatively, will formatting my computer to factory settings work? I don't care much for the data, I have a backup for that. If so how long will it take me to do it and how do I do it.
I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do. I'm fairly new on Macs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Shrink your Mac HFS partition as much as you can, then extend it back out to full size.
This has been asked almost daily for last 4 yrs or ever since Boot Camp has existed.
Need to have free contiguous, unfragmented, free space, with no files locked or interferring with creating a new partition. Shrink can work where BCA fails.
Cloning your system back and erase + restore also usually works.
Booting from a special CD can also (iDefrag, iPartition) though actually CampTune is probably worth a look $19.
A list isn't going to really help, is it.

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I bought recently the Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500 Gb drive (the USB only Windows preformatted model since this one was 150$ cheaper than the made-for-Mac model with FW ports). I had the same problem as you ("one side of the partition is MS-DOS and the other is OSX Journaled"). My friend on an iBook G3 PPC running Panther bought the same model and didn't experience such problems (and was able to upgrade easily from 10.3.9 to 10.4.11 after her initial system backup).
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windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an mbr partition table windows can only be installed to GPT disks
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I wish Apple would expand their own tutorial. The Boot Camp pdf; the FAQ; but it can be done with your OS X DVD and Apple Disk Utility's Restore; with other programs that are free, but require (essential to my thinking) that you have another drive or partition that you can boot from.
Windows and you have rescue CDs. With a Mac you can have and boot OS X from multiple hard drives.
Install OS X to drive #2 and use that to erase and restore.
TimeMachine is 'okay' but you can't boot from it. And I've got to say a bootable backup is more important tool.
The two most popular are Carbon Copy Cloner
http://www.bombich.com or from http://www.macupdate.com
SuperDuper from Shirt-Pocket Software, free for full copy, $29 for smart update of backup. Great PDF and of course no one looks to use the Help menu in programs (like Disk Utility even).
Those backups can be important and handy to have before installing any Mac OS update.
And there should be some 'Stickies' or "Most Popular Threads" or something because this question has been at some times a daily topic.

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After I successfully installed OS X 10.9, I wanted to install Windows 8.1 with Boot Camp. But Boot Camp only wants to shrink the Macintosh HD partition, and doesn't want to use the free space left on the drive. So I switched to Disk Utility, to try it that way. But in Disk Utility I wasn't able to create a new partition (if I press the 'partition' button it just doesn't do anything).
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Disk Utility log:
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As you're finding, a limitation of basic disk is that it only allows 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and an extended partition.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163549.aspx
For information on converting basic to dynamic as well as considerations prior to doing so, consult this article. It should help you make a decision whether or not you want to convert the disk:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163552.aspx
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[SOLVED] SystemD NTFS partition issue's

Hey archers,
hope someone here can help me
recently began testing systemd & I am facing a problem where I have to ctrl+d or give root password during every boot up due to systemd having problems with my ntfs partition ( i mount at boot as I have symlinks to that partition for documents & programs which run in wine)
I have not enabled anything to do with mounting or even added the fuse module to load as it has already picked that up!
here are the entries I think are related to this from journalctl:
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Version 2012.1.15 external FUSE 29
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "Win7-sys", NTFS 3.1)
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Cmdline options: rw,noatime,sync,gid=100,umask=002
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Mount options: rw,sync,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096,default_permissions
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Warning : using problematic uid==0 and gid!=0
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x mount[572]: Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x mount[572]: The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x mount[572]: could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: media-Win7.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=16
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job local-fs.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of local-fs.target.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job systemd-user-sessions.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job lightdm.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job graphical.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job multi-user.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job systemd-logind.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job dbus.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job [email protected]/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job hwclock.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job syslog-ng.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job network.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job cronie.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job snmpd.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job samba.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job webmin.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd-journal[181]: Journal stopped
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd-journal[584]: Journal started
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Unmounting /dev/sdb1 (Win7-sys)
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd-udevd[224]: '/usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0' [500] terminated by signal 15 (Terminated)
Aug 29 07:57:38 b0x systemd[1]: Startup finished in 3s 111ms 648us (kernel) + 6s 425ms 155us (userspace) = 9s 536ms 803us.
Aug 29 07:57:38 b0x systemd[582]: Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth: No such file or directory
Aug 29 07:58:25 b0x systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit avani-dnsconfd.service, ignoring: Unit avani-dnsconfd.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system lo...e' for details.
Aug 29 07:58:25 b0x systemd[1]: Socket service syslog.service not loaded, refusing.
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x arch-modules-load[609]: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/modules-load.d’: File exists
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-modules-load[706]: Module 'vhba' is already loaded
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-modules-load[706]: Module 'fuse' is already loaded
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-fsck[646]: public: clean, 385878/2039808 files, 5060668/8159011 blocks
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-fsck[653]: VM: clean, 228/5677056 files, 5637221/22680575 blocks
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-fsck[644]: Home: clean, 90204/1327104 files, 984778/5305458 blocks
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Version 2012.1.15 external FUSE 29
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "Win7-sys", NTFS 3.1)
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Cmdline options: rw,gid=100,fmask=113,dmask=002
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Mount options: rw,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096,default_permissions
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Warning : using problematic uid==0 and gid!=0
Here is the entry in /etc/fstab for this partition:
## Entry for /dev/sdb1 SYSTEM:(Win7)
UUID=44083B9668A3E0CC /media/Win7 ntfs-3g gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002 0 0
I have been all over goggle & am unable to find out anything which can help.
As stated before I have links to this partition & so really want/need this partition to be mounted at boot.
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
EDIT #1
rebooted again, still the same happening
ran:
$ sudo mount -l
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3022708k,nr_inodes=755677,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) [Arch-sys]
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
/dev/sdb3 on /media/wine type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [wine] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sdd1 on /media/spare2 type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare2] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!<<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sdc1 on /media/spare type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!<<<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sde1 on /media/USB-HDD2 type vfat (rw,noatime,sync,gid=100,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) [USB-HDD2] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb4 on /media/pac type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [pac] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!
/dev/sdd1 on /media/Spare2 type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare2] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdc1 on /media/Spare type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb2 on /media/VM type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [VM] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb3 on /var/wine type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [wine] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb4 on /var/cache/pacman type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [pac] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Win7 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096) [Win7-sys] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sda3 on /public type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [public] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [Home] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
as you can see my partitions are being mounted TWICE which is not what I want or expected!
is there more documentation on what systemd does with mounts that could explain why i have multiple mount points for partitions or is this due to systemd discovering my partitions & mounting them at points based on label names & then parsing my FSTAB as well!
I have read the wikki but there is very small info there & the links have not provided an explanation for this unwanted behaviour
EDIT #2
>>>>>>>>>>>SOLVED<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
not an NTFS or FUSE issue
I had previously installed mnttools!
removed & now all is well
sorry
Last edited by t0m5k1 (2012-08-29 08:30:11)

OK,
After being spurred on to try to do this thing properly, this is what I came up with today.
My fstab line (for a USB NTFS disk):
/dev/sdb1 /media/samsung ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,nodev 0 0
Then I created the /media/samsung folder and gave the audio group read/write permissions.
It seems that non-root users can only mount an ntfs partition if they use a version of ntfs-3g with fuse included, so I replaced ntfs-3g with the version from AUR, having removed from the PKGBUILD file the option "-with-fuse=external" (see this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44844 ). I also had to set
the ntfs-3g binary to setuid-root, dealt with here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g … privileged (note- the instructions say this is discouraged, but it seems using ntfs partitions in linux requires some compromises).
I can now mount the drive as an ordinary user.
Then I set mpd back to run as user mpd, checked the audio group had access to all the mpd folders, and all was well.
One hiccup which you might not have: mpd was unable to access my (external) sound card at first. To solve this one, I used
chmod 770 /dev/snd -R && chgrp audio /dev/snd -R
As far as I can remember, that's everything.
Last edited by Henry Flower (2010-04-20 12:54:26)

Installation/Partitioning Issues

Hi
Brand new to Bootcamp. I have Parallels installed but disgusted with the USB issues. Would like to install my Vista Home Premium software with Bootcamp. After initiating the "partition" task I get this message: THE DISK CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE MOVED. It then suggests "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." Am I having this problem because I have Parallels installed?? Should I delete the Parallels before installing Bootcamp.
Thanks
Don S

Use Disk Utility or SuperDuper to clone your hard drive and have a bootable copy.
Reformat and restore.
Set to go.

Yosemite partition issues (greyed options)

Running:
Hard disk: 3TB Fusion drive
I recently upgraded to YOSEMITE and then after decided it would be useful to add WINDOWS 8 on bootcamp for various reasons.
What I did:
Partition my 3TB Fusion drive to 2.68TB YOSEMITE / 318 MB WINDOWS
Format the new WINDOWS partition in NTFS (using paragon software)
Result:
My new partition seems to have formatted (itself) to Mac OS journaled (how/why?)
Now all options to resize or delete partitions are grey out. I can't change anything
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Booting into disk utility (command-R) to access the drives, but all options are still greyed out
Tried reverting the disk as per some threads, but have failed (please see disk info below)
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scorchio101 wrote:
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If you want to delete the WIN-HD Logical Volume Group (LVG) you need to open Terminal and issue the following command using the LVG's UUID which is the string of letters/numbers/dashes above the Name: WIN-HD line in your screenshot. This will delete that LVG and should result in free space that you can add back into your Fusion Drive. Is this what you're trying to do?
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Can I add a partition to the hard disk with Fusion Drive?
Using Disk Utility, you can add one partition to the hard disk on Fusion Drive. Once you add the partition, the "plus" symbol in Disk Utility to add additional partitions will be grayed out. You cannot partition the Flash storage.
If I create a hard disk partition is it part of Fusion Drive?
The additional partition is not part of Fusion Drive. The new partition is a separate volume that is physically located on the hard disk drive.

Boot Camp partition issue

Hi everyone!
I got my first MacBook Pro today, it's a 17 inch from 2010 (About This Mac tells me it's a MacBook 6,1 for what that's worth!) and I need to install Windows. OS X is great, but I'm still learning it and my games don't play on it. I tried running the Boot Camp Assistant and it keeps throwing up an error like "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition" and I don't know how to get around it. When I got the MacBook (which I bought from a friend), I used the OS X install disk and reinstalled the operating system. I wiped the hard drive with Disk Utility and did a clean install. I checked and I'm not seeing any other partitions.
Can anyone give me a hand here?
Thanks!

You should visit the Bootcamp forum rather than post here in the Macbook Pro forum. The Bootcamp gurus hang out in the Bootcamp forum and your issue has been answered there many times.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Task Sequence Windows Server 2012 format and partition issue when using MDT2012

Hi all,
Currently I'm working on a task sequence to deploy a Windows Server 2012 image. We've integrated MDT2012 Update 1 in SCCM2012 SP1 and created a default 'Server Task Sequence'. This task sequence deploys the install.wim to a server which has multiple disks
attached.
We've configured multiple format and partition disk steps to create the following partition layout:
Disk 0: 499MB BDEDrive (do not assign drive letter) + 40GB OSDisk
Disk 1: 40GB Programs
Disk 2: 40GB Data
Disk 3: 25GB User
When the task sequence is finished I've noticed the drive letters assigned to the disk are not correct. In some cases the BDEdrive gets drive letter D assigned, sometimes drive letters are assigned starting with E, thus skipping drive
letter D.
The smsts.log files show an error when it's re-assigning drive letters after booting into Windows. Looks like an error in the DiskPartScript.txt.
<![LOG[==============================[ OSDSetupHook.exe ]==============================]LOG]!><time="16:59:40.889-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776"
file="osdsetuphook.cpp:186">
<![LOG[Executing task sequence]LOG]!><time="16:59:40.905-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776" file="osdsetuphook.cpp:279">
<![LOG[Loading the Task Sequencing Environment from "C:\_SMSTaskSequence\TSEnv.dat".]LOG]!><time="16:59:40.920-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776"
file="basesetuphook.cpp:366">
<![LOG[Environment scope successfully created: Global\{51A016B6-F0DE-4752-B97C-54E6F386A912}]LOG]!><time="16:59:40.936-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776"
file="environmentscope.cpp:659">
<![LOG[Environment scope successfully created: Global\{BA3A3900-CA6D-4ac1-8C28-5073AFC22B03}]LOG]!><time="16:59:40.936-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776"
file="environmentscope.cpp:659">
<![LOG[Debug shell is enabled]LOG]!><time="16:59:43.806-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776" file="basesetuphook.cpp:1440">
<![LOG[Successfully enabled debug command shell support.]LOG]!><time="16:59:43.884-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776" file="debugwindow.cpp:156">
<![LOG[Configuring local administrator account]LOG]!><time="16:59:43.884-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776" file="basesetuphook.cpp:1462">
<![LOG[Re-assign all drive letters...]LOG]!><time="16:59:43.884-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776" file="diskutils.cpp:1941">
<![LOG[Executing command line: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\diskpart.exe" /s "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\DiskPartScript.txt"]LOG]!><time="16:59:43.900-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context=""
type="1" thread="776" file="commandline.cpp:827">
<![LOG[Process completed with exit code 2147942487]LOG]!><time="16:59:50.249-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="776" file="commandline.cpp:1123">
<![LOG[Diskpart.exe STDOUT:
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: SRV03
Volume 1 is the selected volume.
DiskPart successfully removed the drive letter or mount point.
The volume you selected is not valid or does not exist.
There is no volume selected.
]LOG]!><time="16:59:50.249-120" date="05-10-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="3" thread="776" file="diskutils.cpp:1807">
When I take a look at the generated diskpart_script.log file the volume D gets selected twice, which fails the second time because of the first remove drive letter command.
This is the output in the diskpart_script.log file:
select volume D
remove letter=D
select volume D
remove letter=D
select volume E
remove letter=E
select volume F
remove letter=F
select volume H
remove letter=H
select disk 0
select partition 1
assign
select disk 1
select partition 1
assign
select disk 2
select partition 1
assign
select disk 3
select partition 1
assign
It seems this error is caused by the first 'Format and Partition Disk' step before the 'Use Toolkit Package' step which is part of the default Server Task sequence. When I disable this Format and Partition step and create the partition manually
all looks ok showing no errors in the smsts.log file.
I've solved this by replacing the first 'Format and Partition Disk' step by an Powershell command which formats and partitions the disk.
Anyone seen this behavior?

I have a similar problem when I install windows on some clients. Have you found any explanation for the behavior?

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MacBook Air 2012, Mavericks & Windows 8.1 install
Hi there,
I am going mad trying to install Windows 8.1 from a USB drive via BootCamp. I have made the ISO Windows 8.1 installation disk. I have downloaded the appropriate driver files & seem to be doing everything right. However when I get part way through the process after selecting the Window partition size (40GB) I am running into problems.
When I go to install Windows to the BootCamp partition I get the error message that "Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTSC". Formatting it does not help & when I refresh it still gives the same message. I have deleted the partition & created a new one but still cant proceed.
In disk utility, I can see that it is formatted in NTFS but no matter what I do it will not proceed & gives me an error message. The other error message that I get is "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information see the setup log files".
I have searched the net but not found an answer to this problem. I am desperate to get this fixed. Thanks in advance.

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