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Boot Camp Assistant - i want to partition my hard disk to instal windows 7
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 957913" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Your problem is that you do not have enough contiguous space on your hard drive for the BC assistant to create the Windows partition. The best way and least expensive to resolve this is to:</p><p></p><p>Make a backup of your entire hard drive to an external hard drive using Time Machine. Then boot your machine from your install DVD and use Disk Utility to erase and format the drive. (make sure you format it as HFS extended journaled) Then reinstall OS X. During the reinstall of OS X you will be asked if you have a backup. Use your Time Machine backup and restore OS X and all your data.</p><p></p><p>Once that's completed, you can run the BC assistant again and create the partition for Windows 7. BTW, your hard drive is rather smallish. Windows 7 needs a lot of space especially if you intend to install any games or other applications. And if you intend to install the 64 bit version of Windows 7, that will require even more space.</p><p></p><p>You might consider getting a larger hard drive for your machine before installing Windows 7.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 957913, member: 46727"] Your problem is that you do not have enough contiguous space on your hard drive for the BC assistant to create the Windows partition. The best way and least expensive to resolve this is to: Make a backup of your entire hard drive to an external hard drive using Time Machine. Then boot your machine from your install DVD and use Disk Utility to erase and format the drive. (make sure you format it as HFS extended journaled) Then reinstall OS X. During the reinstall of OS X you will be asked if you have a backup. Use your Time Machine backup and restore OS X and all your data. Once that's completed, you can run the BC assistant again and create the partition for Windows 7. BTW, your hard drive is rather smallish. Windows 7 needs a lot of space especially if you intend to install any games or other applications. And if you intend to install the 64 bit version of Windows 7, that will require even more space. You might consider getting a larger hard drive for your machine before installing Windows 7. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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