Hey everyone,
I am new to the forum and am having a slight issue with my MacBook (late 2008 aluminum 13" 2.0Ghz, 160gb, upgraded to 4Gb ram with 10.5.8).
I partitioned my hard drive with bootcamp so that I could install windows xp with sp2. I installed everything, updated everything and it was great. Then I stupidly realized that I didn't allow enough room for a large game I wanted to install (insert comments here!)
So, I deleted the Windows partition with bootcamp and went about the process to add another partition that would be more than big enough. But, bootcamp wouldn't allow it. I got a message stating, "the disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. Back up the disk using disk utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using bootcamp assistant again.
Now, that sounds very obvious and I am backing up my system on an external hard drive now with time machine.
I am a newb, so I wanted to know if backing up with time machine, then doing what the assistant suggested will fix my problem. It's quite intensive so I was wondering if there was a way around it or not. Will I run into any other problems? Is it easy to restore from time machine? Do I do something differently when reinstalling?
Thanks for any assistance.
Adam
I am new to the forum and am having a slight issue with my MacBook (late 2008 aluminum 13" 2.0Ghz, 160gb, upgraded to 4Gb ram with 10.5.8).
I partitioned my hard drive with bootcamp so that I could install windows xp with sp2. I installed everything, updated everything and it was great. Then I stupidly realized that I didn't allow enough room for a large game I wanted to install (insert comments here!)
So, I deleted the Windows partition with bootcamp and went about the process to add another partition that would be more than big enough. But, bootcamp wouldn't allow it. I got a message stating, "the disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. Back up the disk using disk utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using bootcamp assistant again.
Now, that sounds very obvious and I am backing up my system on an external hard drive now with time machine.
I am a newb, so I wanted to know if backing up with time machine, then doing what the assistant suggested will fix my problem. It's quite intensive so I was wondering if there was a way around it or not. Will I run into any other problems? Is it easy to restore from time machine? Do I do something differently when reinstalling?
Thanks for any assistance.
Adam