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Boot camp partitioning issue

Apr 8, 2007 11:51PM PDT

I am trying to use boot camp on my Macbook and I keep getting this message when it tries to partition the hard drive:

"Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format the disk as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."

I read on another thread that this was because my hard drive is already partitioned? So I opened disk utility and I have these two drives:

Macintosh HD and "74.5 GB ST98823AS Media"

What is that second partition?? It says it is "read/write" and "GUID Partition table" at the bottom. it doesnt say that there are any files or available space on it. I have an 80 GB harddrive, which all shows up under the Macintosh HD section.

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Partitions
Apr 9, 2007 3:36AM PDT

What you are seeing are both the same disk.
Macintosh HD is the name that appears on the desktop and ST98823A is the actual drive. It would appear to be a Seagate drive.
The 74.5GB is the size after formatting, you did not loose anything, it is just a different way of measuring capacity.

Boot Camp believes that you have two partitions already. How many disks appear on the desktop?

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RE:
Apr 9, 2007 3:49AM PDT

Only one disc appears on the desktop (Macintosh HD), I had boot camp installed on my computer previously, but I deleted it using the boot camp utility program, so it should have been removed properly. I also have parallels installed, but am planning on deleting it once I get bootcamp to work.

Thanks.

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Boot Camp
Apr 9, 2007 4:39AM PDT

It "could" be that the Boot Camp uninstaller did not fully complete the task.
Try running it again and see if it makes any difference.

Check System Profiler to see if the disk is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)or something else

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tried
Apr 9, 2007 7:34AM PDT

I tried running it several times, and kept getting the same message.

In disk utility, it says that Macintosh HD's format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

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(NT) Running the UNinstaller??
Apr 9, 2007 10:12AM PDT
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If the Uninstaller fails
Apr 9, 2007 9:54PM PDT

Running the Uninstaller again does not do the trick, you may be forced to backup your stuff and reformat the drive into one partition (again) and put the OS back on.
Unfortunately, changing any partion information will destroy ALL of the data on the disk


This is a correct to the original post. I had a problem with the Subject line autofill. This has nothing to do with an iPod


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