Siva Yuti has given you here the best explanation why you are having the problem.
His suggestions are exhaustive and are the best options for you at the moment. I would also like to add that you probably have decided to use BootCamp after considerable time from the time you installed Leopard on your hard drive. The more you use the Leopard bootable partition, the more difficult it is for BootCamp to allocate a ³partition² for Windows. Bottomline >> Use Bootcamp as soon as you partition your drive & install Leopard. Cheers Savio On 4/8/09 6:22 AM, "Yuti Bhatt" <[email protected]> wrote: > Make sure your hard drive is a single partition (Mac OS Extended Journaled). > If you've already partitioned your hard drive (for example, using Disk > Utility), you'll have to remove those partitions and restore your drive to a > single partition formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled. To use Bootcamp > Assistant, you will need your original Leopard DVD (required to install the > drivers for Windows), and a full install XP-SP2 or Vista disk. > > If you're still getting the error, check if you have many large files on your > hard drive (exceeding 20 MB each) which are occupying large amounts of hard > disk space, such as movies, videos, etc? It's possible that your hard drive > does not have the contiguous space required for the partition. If so, you may > need to optimize your hard drive first by using Disk Utility from the Leopard > install DVD to repair your hard drive. Alternatively, remove these large > files, reboot, and try Bootcamp Assistant again. > > > On 07-Apr-09, at 5:01 PM, siva ram wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I am trying to install Windows in my Mac thru Boot Camp Assistant. I have >> about 35 GB space empty and I am trying to allocate 20Gb space partition for >> Windows. But the boot camp says that It cannot partition and asks me take a >> Back up which I cannot possibly do as I do not have a back up Hard Disk. Now >> I want to know how can i procede with my partition without erasing any data >> from my Mac. Please help me. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sivaram K >> >> >> Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now >> <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_2/*http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail >> /yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/> > >
