Bootcamp, more like crapcamp.

I used bootcampt to partition 80 gigs for XP. when it was done it told me to reboot. Now when I run bootcamp to install XP instead of taking me to the "Start the windows installer" like its supposed to, it DOESNT recognize that partition and it asks me to partition again. Except now the hard drive is 80 gigs smaller!!!!!

I ran disk utility and it says invalid block count!

I didnt think Id have these kinds of problems....

RATS! I dont want to reformat my drive and reinstall X.

Run the Boot Camp Assistant and have it return the drive to a single partition.

...or just restore the disk from the backup that you did before running the Boot Camp assistant.

















(you did make a backup first, right?)

Boot up with your OS X install DVDs, from the menu bar launch the disk utility and choose to repair your disk this should then identify the free size is not being reported correctly and correct it. I had this problem with my MBP and that fixed the problem. You shouldnt need to reinstall OS X

I had to reformat mine to kill off the dead bootcamp partition ! Bootcamp wouldn't get rid of mine when that happened. I now run windows via parallels so its easier.

Is your Parallels stable? Mine hangs and won't close out?

Bmode said:

Is your Parallels stable? Mine hangs and won't close out?

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Yes, mine works fine. I just close the parallels window and it shuts down and then when I re-run parallels it appears back where I shut it down. No problems at all with it (that aren't windows related!).

Anyone ever figure out why Bootcamp seems to be crapping out during partitioning all of the sudden?