boot camp assistant

When I open boot camp assistant I get:
"boot camp assistant cannot be used
this startup disk is not supported"

tonypinn said:

When I open boot camp assistant I get:
"boot camp assistant cannot be used
this startup disk is not supported"

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Are you using Leopard? What kind of Mac do you have?

using leopard
os X
imac

Sounds like you might have an issue with your filesystem. Have you formatted the hard drive since you originally bought the machine? If not, I would try to run First Aid on it from Disk Utility (Applications => Utilities).

cwa107
Followed your advice. No change.
If I may- I had tried installing winXP sp2 but could not get program to accept ser#. I gave up, but did not remove the partition for winXP. I am fairly new to mac and may have inadvertently deleted something. So the drive is still partitioned. Does that help?

Bootcamp assistant can only work on a hard drive with a single partition...

Use disk utility to delete the blank (I assume) partition you were trying to install windows on and try bootcamp assistant again.

OK. I opened Disk Utility and I'm not sure how to do this. Can you explain?

tonypinn said:

OK. I opened Disk Utility and I'm not sure how to do this. Can you explain?

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Click on your hard drive name that should be at the top of the list on the left of DU.
Click on the partition tab...
Click on the partition [box] that is either titled "Windows" or "UNTITLED" (basically the on that is not your OS X partition)
Click on the minus button at the bottom of the partition list...

Disk Utility will delete that partition and add the newly acquired space to your OS X partition.

Make sure you restart -
Then go ahead and try bootcamp assistant again...


Hope this Helps

NPuter;
Many thanks.
Tony