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Boot Camp Partition Error
I've been trying to load Windows 7 through Boot Camp to play around with but every time Boot Camp goes to partition my drive I get an error that some files could not be moved. I know sometimes this is because there is not enough free space but I have 90GM free! I created a backup of my Mac HD and rebooted from my install disk and had the disk utility erase it and reload the backup on to it so I'm going to see how it did tonight. Fingers crossed!
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It sounds like you need to defrag your drive. (in OS X? What? I know.) Check out the app iDefrag (sadly, it will cost you some cash in order to get Boot Camp up and running), but other folks have definitely been able to solve the same problem you had.
From the archives of a blog (I've linked to below): "So I downloaded the iDefrag trial and scanned my drive. I noticed a huge file (~2 GB, which happened to be the swap file) in the second half of the physical drive space, so if OSX was unable to move that file, that explains why my 50 GB partition failed in Boot Camp. You can't do much beyond a scan with iDefrag until you purchase it, so purchase it I did ($30). Then I created an iDefrag boot disk (using the CD creator software they provide), booted to the CD, and ran iDefrag (this is necessary because you cannot boot from the HD you wish to defragment, unless you use the simple/quick defragment algorithm, but that wouldn't have done what I needed here). Then I ran the compact algorithm to move everything to the front of the drive. Once it finished, I rebooted to my HD and ran Boot Camp Assistant once again, and voila, it created the large partition no problem."
More info: www.pluralsight-training.net/community/blogs/aaron...
From the archives of a blog (I've linked to below): "So I downloaded the iDefrag trial and scanned my drive. I noticed a huge file (~2 GB, which happened to be the swap file) in the second half of the physical drive space, so if OSX was unable to move that file, that explains why my 50 GB partition failed in Boot Camp. You can't do much beyond a scan with iDefrag until you purchase it, so purchase it I did ($30). Then I created an iDefrag boot disk (using the CD creator software they provide), booted to the CD, and ran iDefrag (this is necessary because you cannot boot from the HD you wish to defragment, unless you use the simple/quick defragment algorithm, but that wouldn't have done what I needed here). Then I ran the compact algorithm to move everything to the front of the drive. Once it finished, I rebooted to my HD and ran Boot Camp Assistant once again, and voila, it created the large partition no problem."
More info: www.pluralsight-training.net/community/blogs/aaron...
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