boot camp partitioning issue

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tara1012

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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.
 
Obviously, you only have one partition. An 80 GB drive formats to that 74.5 GB volume. No second partition on your drive.

It could be that your drive is too full in order for the partitioning by BootCamp to take place. Since you should have a backup medium anyway, I really suggest doing what Apple suggests, though.
 
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