Bootcamp help

[apocalypselat3r]

I am running on a souped up macbook. I have more than enough specs to run what i desire to run. I am trying to set up boot camp so I can run such a program, but I cant get past the partition. When I am in the bootcamp assistant beta, and i click partition once i set my desired hardrive amount for windows xp; after it goes a bit, I get a message. I says; your disc cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved. then below that message it reads; back up the disk and use disk utility to format the disk as a single mac OS extended volume. restor your information to the disk and try using boot camp assistant again. What does that mean??? Please I need this so badly. How do i get past this problem.

[DeltaMac]

What's a 'souped up macbook'?

Here's some partition info from the Boot Camp installation and Setup guide

I can’t partition my disk.
In order to partition your disk and install Windows XP using Boot Camp Assistant, the disk must be a single partition, formatted as a Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) volume. If you have already partitioned your disk using Disk Utility or some other utility, you cannot use Boot Camp Assistant until you restore your disk to a single-partition Mac OS X volume.
Boot Camp Assistant only works with internal disks. You cannot use Boot Camp Assistant to partition and install Windows XP on an external disk.

So, BootCamp will help you if you have only one partition on the hard drive.
If you have data on the part of the hard drive that Boot Camp wants to use, then you may need to remove some files to get enough space to create the Windows partition. Keep in mind that OS X needs plenty of space to work also.

How much space is available on your hard drive now, and how large is the Windows partition that you want Boot Camp to create?

[apocalypselat3r]

there is about 20 gb on my hardrive, avaliable 19 i guess. and i am only asking for 5 on my windows. since all i want to do on it is play counterstrike.

[apocalypselat3r]

bump

[DeltaMac]

Originally Posted by apocalypselat3r

there is about 20 gb on my hardrive, avaliable 19 i guess. and i am only asking for 5 on my windows. since all i want to do on it is play counterstrike.

'bump?'
Is it 19, or 20, or what? Bootcamp needs a minimum of 10 GB space to create even the 5GB partition. I think you are having problems because you don't have enough space available on your hard drive, and you need to make sure if you still want to try BootCamp/Windows.
Download the latest update from today for BootCamp. Maybe some small change in that will give you better luck.
Do you still have the original single partition on your hard drive - or did you previously add one or more partitions before trying BootCamp? You won't be able to set up BootCamp on a drive that does not have just one partition.

[apocalypselat3r]

thats what that guy before you was helping me on, he asked me how much space i had left, i told him 19 or 20 gigs. I just want to partition 5 gbs for my windows. thats all. so like but as you can read above, it doesnt let me.

[DeltaMac]

Please answer the question, as it's the most relevant to the error that you get.
Do you have one partition now on your hard drive?
If you do not, then you have the re-format to go back to one partition.
The Boot Camp assistant will NOT work if you have more than one partition. It will also give you errors if you don't have enough space on your drive.
It will require more free space than you want to use for a partition (double the partition to get the free space you need), and will error out if there's not enough space.

Download the latest update from today for BootCamp. Maybe some small change in that will give you better luck, or a better explanation for the partition failure.

[apocalypselat3r]

how do you re-format to go back to one partition? I downloaded and used parallels before. May that have partitioned the discs. How do i re-format to go back to one partition. thanks by the way for helping me thus far.