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Hi, I've been trying to instal windows seven for days and i cant get it to work. The exact error message is (which im sure many of you have seen on the forums)
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved, Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
Mind you, I still have 180 out of 500 gigs of hard drive space free.
I really really dont want to buy an external drive or cloud storage or anything.
So after i had this error message the first time i scoured the internet for a solution that didnt require the recommended backup/restore, and found that many people solved this problem by defragging their system. So, some quick background history, I wanted to run windows, but i didnt want to spend money so i never bothered to do it, until my friend told me he had an extra copy, so i thought great, no money needs to be spent. Now I had to buy idefrag to defrag my hard drive to get rid of this error, its only 30$, kinda sucks but no big deal. SO i bought it, ran full defrag and compact, also read that i should verify disk permissions, repair disk permissions, verify disk, and repair disk (all in disk utility). After doing ALL of this, i still get the error message that files cant be moved -_- . I've seen some suggestions about partitioning from the instal disk, which i would do if i had the instal disk, its back at home buried somewhere while im at college.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what i can do to get this copy of windows running without having to spend any additional money?
Running Lion on 2.3 GHz MBP with 8 gb DDR3 with 500 gig hard drive
thanks everyone
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved, Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
Mind you, I still have 180 out of 500 gigs of hard drive space free.
I really really dont want to buy an external drive or cloud storage or anything.
So after i had this error message the first time i scoured the internet for a solution that didnt require the recommended backup/restore, and found that many people solved this problem by defragging their system. So, some quick background history, I wanted to run windows, but i didnt want to spend money so i never bothered to do it, until my friend told me he had an extra copy, so i thought great, no money needs to be spent. Now I had to buy idefrag to defrag my hard drive to get rid of this error, its only 30$, kinda sucks but no big deal. SO i bought it, ran full defrag and compact, also read that i should verify disk permissions, repair disk permissions, verify disk, and repair disk (all in disk utility). After doing ALL of this, i still get the error message that files cant be moved -_- . I've seen some suggestions about partitioning from the instal disk, which i would do if i had the instal disk, its back at home buried somewhere while im at college.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what i can do to get this copy of windows running without having to spend any additional money?
Running Lion on 2.3 GHz MBP with 8 gb DDR3 with 500 gig hard drive
thanks everyone