bootcamp partition problem!

[skinhead]

can anyone help me why my iMac is displaying this message? ive installed XP/Vista via bootcamp before with no problem partitioning my drive, but this iMac wont let me do it

running the latest bootcamp btw..

[husayno]

the only solution is to reinstall osx. I did the same thing to make it work.

[booblanco]

this happened to me too, so I switched to Parallels

[waffycasem]

Happened to my iMac and on my friend's MacBook... what I did was repair the drive's disk permissions then reinstalled Bootcamp. That worked for the MacBook but not on my iMac.. Weird.

[manolop10]

Ya this happened to me also. I read somewhere before that you can try defragmenting your HD. If not, just reinstall OSX. I hated this problem.

[skinhead]

tried the repair permission and reinstalling bootcamp but its still the same.. seems like reinstalling OSX is the only option now

[piedad]

It has something to do with the hard disk being too fragmented (data scattered all over the place0 and not enough disk space available for the utility to unfragment the disk and repartition it for bootcamp.
My only recourse was to reinstall OSX (erase and install) and immediately install Bootcamp.

[booblanco]

Erasing and re-installing OS X just to install Windows?!! Forget it.

[pjamelo]

No there is another solution...
Probably you have already partition your drive with bootcamp and you restore the partition back to single. Am i right???

In order to install Windows again is:

Let's say you want 20 GB of HD....
Try 20 if it doesn 't work then move to 19 if it doesn't work try 21 small move one up one down and you will see that it works...

[Gomi]

If I'm not mistaken, copying the entire drive to another one will "defragment" the files. So you could probably copy the whole drive to an external, boot from there and initialize the iMac's HD. Then recopy the whole drive again. I may be wrong.