Bootcamp Help, MBP OS X 10.5.5

braz2kuk

braz2kuk

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Hi,

I have a MBP with OS X 10.5.5, i currently have the stock harddrive installed which is a 160GB drive. I have this split into two partitions which are the following:

1) Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Main Partition - Apps and user data etc.)
2) Music (Where all my music is stored)

Now i have decided to use bootcamp and install vista x64 so i can play some games, now when i open the bootcamp assistant, i am presented with the following message:

"The Startup Disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single parition, The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by bootcamp assistant for installing windows."

Now i am only trying to resize my main partition and create an ntfs partition within in it for windows, Is there something i am doing wrong?

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

Thanks in advance :)
 
braz2kuk said:
"The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by bootcamp assistant for installing windows."
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It's telling you exactly what the problem is here.

The drive must have either one partition on it, or already be partitioned by boot camp. Your drive has two partitions on it already so it won't work.
 
Well you can't manually create a boot camp partition so as far as I know (stand to be corrected) the only way to do it would be to copy all your music to the main partition or an external drive, and then delete the second partition. That way you'll have a drive which boot camp will recognise as it will only have one partition.
 
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