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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1500533" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>You can't erase and format the drive while you're booted up into OS X - it's not going to let you erase itself.</p><p></p><p>Depending on which version of OS X you have, you need to boot either:</p><p>from the disc that shipped with your machine, </p><p>from a USB backup of OS X you created </p><p>or reboot into the recovery partition.</p><p></p><p>There are others that probably don't agree, but my personal opinion is that if you've filled up a drive to the point that it is not allowing you to create the Windows partition, you would be a good nominee to get iDefrag - especially if you like keeping OS X booting and running as good as it's capable. I also recommend making sure you keep 40% free space minimum on any partition with a bootable OS to keep that OS running as fast as capable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1500533, member: 24160"] You can't erase and format the drive while you're booted up into OS X - it's not going to let you erase itself. Depending on which version of OS X you have, you need to boot either: from the disc that shipped with your machine, from a USB backup of OS X you created or reboot into the recovery partition. There are others that probably don't agree, but my personal opinion is that if you've filled up a drive to the point that it is not allowing you to create the Windows partition, you would be a good nominee to get iDefrag - especially if you like keeping OS X booting and running as good as it's capable. I also recommend making sure you keep 40% free space minimum on any partition with a bootable OS to keep that OS running as fast as capable. [/QUOTE]
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