Well, I can't explain why, other than to say the very same error I would get over and over turned up lots of web search results of other people experiencing the same thing.
I found one posting that said something like: "Failed the first time, failed the second time, failed the third time, worked the fourth time." That was about it for me. The worst part of the entire process is that I discovered I couldn't leave it alone. Were I to set BootCamp running and walk away to do something out of my office, e.g. laundry, I would come back and find a "BootCamp Busy" message on the screen that I couldn't get out of. Apparently, there's a time out for entering your password at the various points when BootCamp prompts for a password. If you're too slow responding to that, BootCamp blows up and you have to start over again. At least, that's how it worked for me. I found this utterly frustrating. I hate babysitting computers. Janina Simon Fogarty writes: > This I find interesting as I've not had trouble with bootcamp at any time > I've installed it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2018 5:50 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: bootcamp error messages on latest osx? > > I can tell you I've spent the last month struggling with BootCamp. It's very > fussy, but also brittle, in my experience, i.e. the Windows installation > process will frequently break, but then eventually succeed. > Go figure. > > > Relevant to your situation I can attest that BootCamp is fussy about using > the tail end of your OS X container. I actually tried to get fancy and put in > a Win partition mid disk, then assign the remainder for ExFAT so that it > could contain files to share with both OS. Well, BootCamp refused to > cooperate with that. > > The only situation that successfully created the BootCamp partitionand > launched the Windows install was having the entire disk, all the way to the > edge, assigned to OS X. Even free space, uunpartitioned and unformatted > wasn't acceptable. > > diskutil from the command line is your friend on this task, imo. Note in the > page I pointed you to that a size of 0 means "fill the whole disk." > You want to see the entire container assigned to the Mac before running > BootCamp. > > Good luck! > > Janina > > The wolf writes: > > Hello will give this a look at > > > > I wish it would tell me what the error is so I can try to google it is > > this a known issue? I have'nt touched any of the mac partitions so it > > shouldn't be doing this. > > thanks > > Hank > > > > On 1/9/2018 8:51 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: > > > First Aid should be in the Toolbar of Disk Utility. At least that's > > > where it is on my 2014 vintage Airbook running High Sierra. > > > > > > Note there are even more options available from the Terminal command > > > line, though with far less Voice Over functionality. > > > > > > If possible ssh in for better screen reader support. I ssh to my Mac > > > from a Linux shell. > > > > > > The reason is to run diskutil, which is a command line tool that > > > does far more than the graphical Disk Utility. > > > > > > The man page for diskutil is essential, but a challenge to comprehend. > > > Here's a good web page to get you started: > > > > > > https://www.MacObserver.com/tips/deep-dive/resize-your-apfs-containe > > > r/ > > > > > > > > > Note also that it's possible to install Windows without using > > > BootCamp, but it's not an accessible process. You'll need sighted > > > assistance. > > > Here's a page on that process which should be the same, even though > > > you're not installing Win 10. It also helps explain what's going on > > > under the BootCamp hood > > > > > > http://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/installing-windows-10-on-a- > > > mac-without-bootcamp/ > > > > > > hth > > > > > > Janina > > > > > > The wolf writes: > > > > Hello yes I have it and when I selected it I couldn't find a > > > > repair button > > > > > > > > please bare with me I haven't used a mac in about 3 to 4 years so > > > > am trying to refresh my memory. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > Hank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/9/2018 4:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > Isn’t there a first aid in disk utility? > > > > > You have to select the disk first and then find the first aid button. > > > > > Or is this not working. > > > > > Then something seems broken. > > > > > /A > > > > > > > > > > > 9 jan. 2018 kl. 23:00 skrev The wolf <hank.smith...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello I am back in the mac world I got a macbook that is a > > > > > > 2009 or later addission the mac was orriginally purchased in > > > > > > 2012 > > > > > > > > > > > > it will not support windows10 but it will support windows7 > > > > > > > > > > > > it has 2 gigs of ram it will be slow running windows but will > > > > > > be upgrading the ram soon\ > > > > > > > > > > > > when ever I try to partition boot camp it says partition error > > > > > > it gives me no info on what the error message it it says to > > > > > > try running disk repair there is no disk repair choice in disk > > > > > > utility > > > > > > > > > > > > I looked both at disk utility when booted in to osx and I also > > > > > > tried looking in disk utility under recovery no repair choice > > > > > > > > > > > > I am running the latest osx high sierra can any one help me > > > > > > out here? 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