Bootcamp some files cannot be moved

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Please consider turning off your ad blocker. Thank you. I was trying to create a Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant v1. I have plenty of free disk space, close to 40GB of it, and I have used Disk Utility to verify and repair the drive and permissions.

B03, SMC ver. However, every time I try to create a 20GB partition for Windows using the Boot Camp Assistant, I receive the attached error dialog stating "Your disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. Jan 24, AM in response to thomohawk85 In response to thomohawk The answer lies in fragmentation. OSX seems to want a contigious block of clean disk to write to, and fragments of your files are scattered across it.

Yeah, yeah. I chose to fork out 20 Euro and make the problem go away using iDefrag. Fortunately it ships with the tool to generate that bootable DV for you. Jan 24, AM. Well I guess you didn't read very many. The only way to learn is to read the posts, after a while you start to figure it out. Your question is one of the most asked and most answered. You will run out of room really soon with only 40 gigs of space for Windows, unless your just going to browse the internet or read your mail.

Your best bet would be to give it as close to gig as you can and you wouldn't have to go through this whole mess again. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. May 7, PM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp I assume you're trying to create a Windows partition using Boot Camp Assistant, you did not post the full error message either. User profile for user: ds store ds store. May 7, PM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp zuzugp wrote: My time Machine isnt set up so i cant back up my files.

Well you need to resolve that backup issue first and combined we will solve your other issue. Any suggestions what i can try to do with out backing up? User profile for user: Csound1 Csound1. May 7, PM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp zuzugp wrote: Yup. User profile for user: Henrybtz Henrybtz. Jul 10, PM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp Hello, This is what happend to me and how I got my mac run windows 7 again. My windows 7 got infected with a virus so I had to restore the entire partition with bootcamp utility, after that I tried to create the partition again to reinstall my windows 7 but surprise I could not partition it, instead I got a message : The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved so this is what you have to do to make it work, insert the mac OS dvd into the drive, restart the machine, then press letter C to boot from the dvd, after the lenguage selection, go to disk utilities, and make a repair, restart the machine try bootcamp, it should work now.

User profile for user: nobium nobium Aug 15, AM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp There is a quicker solution you should try before erasing your entire hard drive.

User profile for user: Dilapidus Dilapidus. Sep 13, PM in response to nobium In response to nobium Worked like a charm. Thank you for being an island of sanity on this thread. User profile for user: kmhamilton kmhamilton Sep 15, PM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp I was having the same problem.

Keith Hamilton. User profile for user: thehotrod thehotrod. Nov 16, AM in response to nobium In response to nobium Thanks nobium Nov 16, AM in response to thehotrod In response to thehotrod thehotrod wrote: Thanks nobium User profile for user: drewjamess drewjamess.

Mar 8, PM in response to ds store In response to ds store Hey I've been looking all over for solutions to this problem, and nothing I try works. Mar 9, AM in response to drewjamess In response to drewjamess It sounds like you may be attempting to erase the partition that you're running from. Note: RAID is something else, don't use that tab. User profile for user: smallpaul smallpaul Mar 25, PM in response to zuzugp In response to zuzugp I still don't get why this works, my hard drive has gb left with a total of gb and won't even partition a 20gb partition Mar 25, PM in response to smallpaul In response to smallpaul Erase and restore is the sole reliable solution, you will end up using that method so bite the bullet now and get what you need.

User profile for user: zuzugp Question: Q: The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. Ask a question Reset. I have plenty of free disk space, close to 40GB of it, and I have used Disk Utility to verify and repair the drive and permissions.

B03, SMC ver. However, every time I try to create a 20GB partition for Windows using the Boot Camp Assistant, I receive the attached error dialog stating "Your disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.

Any known solutions? Sounds like a corrupted disk to me. I get this too. I have been unable to install Boot Camp because of it.