well I gave up and formatted the drive, put Leopard in, created Bootcamp and restored from Time Machine, but serious issues, got the grey screen of death, then had to run the snow leopard installer disc again, as a result have gone back to 10.6 with serious issues (bluetooth not working for now) and now downloading 10.6.2, not a happy experience in all :(, which idiot told me to do bootcamp... oh that was me, I'm going to shoot myself now...
Thanks anyways Many cheers of the season! Ashish On Dec 24, 5:11 pm, Yuti Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Some more suggestions: > > Your hard drive should be a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume > before you partition it for Bootcamp. If you've already partitioned > your drive (for some other purpose, not Bootcamp), you will have to > remove that partition (using Disk Utility) and restore the drive to a > single volume first. > > Remove all files larger than 20 MB, then optimize the drive using Disk > Utility from the Install CD. You could also use a 3rd party app (like > OnyX) to remove logs, Spotlight index, optimize, etc > > Remove File Vault protection and uninstall Parallels VM and any > Parallels folders left behind in your home folder after > uninstallation. These may designate certain files as unmovable. > > Finally, for the future, if / when you acquire a new Mac, install > Bootcamp Windows while your machine is still new and uncluttered with > data. > > On 24-Dec-09, at 12:59 PM, Ashish wrote: > > > > > Didn't work :( > > > Please some more suggestions? Please? > > > Thanks! > > Ashish > > > On Dec 24, 7:50 am, Yuti Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Run the Disk Utility app (Verify/Repair) through the install CD. > >> Bootcamp needs contiguous space. > > >> On 23-Dec-09, at 9:42 PM, Ashish wrote: > > >>> Hi! I need to install bootcamp on my macbook, I've freed up 60gb but > >>> it keeps telling me that OS X couldn’t move some files and the > >>> partition could not be created, without doing a backup and re- > >>> formatting the laptop, is there a way around this? I also downloaded > >>> Onyx and tried thru that to no avail but > >>> Please help > >>> Thanks!
