Can't Partition

[matt_olsen]

Hi! After I upgraded to Leopard I decided I need to restore back my Windows installation, because I used it's partition for the Leopard installation files. I managed to restore the disk to one volume, then tried making a 30 GB partition for Vista in Boot Camp. I have about 100GB free space, but it won't allow me to make the partition, saying that some files can't be moved. I opened Disk Utility and in the partition tab it shows that it has only 10 free GB. Here's a screenshot of Disk Utility, in the small photo is the free space report in the First Aid tab. Please help, I really need Windows!

[mexapple]

Matt, I had the same problem. Boot Camp won't allow you to partition if you have files on your HD that are bigger than 500 MB or larger (usually movies or large disk images).Try temporarily removing all very large files from your Hard Disk (back them up to an external drive or to DVD's). Once you remove all large files try to partition again, 10 to 1 says that you'll partition successfully. If that doesn't work, try defragging your Hard Disk with a tool like iDefrag.

 

Addendum:

 

Matt, I noticed from your image that you have the Leopard.dmg which is about 6 GB in size in your Hard Disk, Boot Camp will definitely NOT let you partition with a file that size on your Hard Disk. Remove that and all other large files and try again.

[matt_olsen]

Thanks for the advice. got rid of everything larger than 500 MB, even 400 MB, defragmented the disk using iDefrag and still nothing. There is some... improvement or something: instead of the old error, now it says that I have to repair the disk. Because this is the boot volume, it can't be repaired in OS X /at least not on my computer/ so I boot off the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger DVD that came with the iMac, verify and repair the disc and still nothing.

[mexapple]

Matt, try repairing Disk Permissions on your boot disk. Boot normally and open Disk Utility Choose your disk on the left (uppermost selection) and press "Repair Disk Permissions" button.

Let it do its thing and then try to repartition in Boot Camp.

 

If after this it still doesn't work, then I'm really stumped and you may have a corrupt disk.

 

You may have luck with a program called Disk Warrior, but use this as a last resort and back up all important stuff!

 

Hope this helps!

[matt_olsen]

Nope, still nothing. The strangest thing is that Tiger's Disk Utility finds the disk all right, but in Leopard there's some strange error, this is the log from last time's run:

2007-07-07 09:10:16 +0300: Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Starting verification tool:  2007-07-07 09:10:16 +0300
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Performing live verification.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking Catalog file.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Incorrect block count for file The Sims 2.dmg
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: (It should be 106716 instead of 106788)
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking multi-linked files.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking Catalog hierarchy.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking Extended Attributes file.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking volume bitmap.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Checking volume bitmap.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: ation.",0)
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.

2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: 
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300: Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:

Filesystem verify or repair failed.
2007-07-07 09:11:19 +0300:

 

And that The Sims 2.dmg file is 432 MB, I checked!

[mexapple]

First of all get rid of that Sims 2.dmg, after that, repair disk and try to partition in Boot Camp.

 

If that doesn't work, then proceed on to next suggestion:

 

 

I would try this as a last resort and if this fails, if it were my system I would do an "archive and install" which means backup important files and re-install from scratch.

Do not try this if you do not feel comfortable booting into single user mode (command prompt) and issuing commands directly to the system.

 

Boot into single user mode (press Command and S) when you hear the Apple startup Bong.

 

Do not type "$" -that is the system prompt

 

Type the following command:

 

$ fsck -fy

 

If you have an overlapped extent allocation, you'll see: "Overlapped Extent Allocation" (File 123456d) No matter how many times you run fsck -fy, you'll never be rid of the error.

 

So, simply issue the following command: find / -inode 123456 -print Note the "d" was dropped, or any extra letter that appears after the inode number.

 

The find will return a file name that machines with the inode number, and the path to that file.

 

If you remove the file then the fsck will not return this error next time you run it. However, before you can delete the file(s) in single-user mode, you'll need to mount the file system.

 

Type: $ mount -uw / When done, issue the "sync" command, and that will flush the write cache so that all pending writes are written from memory to the disk.

 

Also, since most OS X 10.3+ Macs use the HFS+ Journaled file system, it might be a good idea to disable the journal before booting into single-user mode by typing: $ sudo diskutil disableJournal / then re-enable it when done fixing the overlapped extents and rebooting normally: $ sudo diskutil enableJournal

 

The trick is to get rid of the bad files listed when you issue the "find" command, when all bad files are gone, it should allow you to repair the disk.

If this does not help, I would try Disk Warrior as last resort and if that does not work then I recommend, erase all partitions, create a new one, and re-install from scratch

.Good Luck!

[matt_olsen]

Deleted The Sims, still nothing. The only thing that amazes me is that in Tiger, the disk seems fine, but in Leopard there's this error. Then Boot Camp tries to find all types of error messages: from the disk not passing verification, to some stuck files that can't be moved. I'm seriously thinking I should get back to Tiger, even though I'm perfectly happy with Leopard. Will try that Single User thing, but I'm not very sure if it will work! Actually I'm not very sure I need to do it anyways, because now even Leopard doesn't find any errors.

[matt_olsen]

Well, I managed to install Vista fine. Made a Boot DVD with Coriolis (not sure if it's spelled like that) CD maker with iDefrag. Booted from it and made a full defrag. After a couple of hours everything went fine. Disk Utility finally realized that I have more than 10GB free space, Boot Camp ran perfect and Vista is up and running!