| For users, who want dual booting between Mac OS | | | | Ø Operating system installation faults |
| X and Windows XP or Vista, Boot Camp will allow | | | | Ø Parallels VM marked unmovable |
| you to do so. This is an assistance tool, which comes | | | | Ø Insufficient Disk Space |
| with Leopard and works on Intel based Macintosh | | | | Ø External drives connected |
| systems. The software lets you have safe | | | | Ø Sharing Options turned on |
| repartitioning of the Mac hard drive and helps installing | | | | So try resolving the issue by reinstalling the operating |
| Windows. | | | | system, deleting the parallels VM file, freeing the hard |
| But, due to one or the other reasons, some users | | | | disk from useless and large files, disconnecting the |
| are reporting a strange error with the software. | | | | external drives or turning off the sharing options. See |
| When the user attempts repartitioning with the | | | | if, either of them helps. But, make sure that you |
| application, the following error may pop up: | | | | have all the data backed up before reinstalling OS, |
| “The disk cannot be partitioned because some | | | | unless to require Mac data recovery. |
| files cannot be moved. | | | | However, Boot Camp also put restriction on the |
| Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a | | | | Windows partition that the lowest limit must be of 5 |
| single Mac OS X Extended (journaled) volume. | | | | GB and it must leave the same amount of free |
| Restore your information to the disk and try using | | | | space for Mac partition. So see, if this is not creating |
| Boot Camp Assistant again” | | | | the problem. |
| Also, if you look in /var/logs/system.log file for | | | | And those, who have lost data due to installation of |
| further descriptive look of the problem, the error | | | | Mac OS or while deleting some important file can |
| may be like: | | | | have Mac recovery with the third party applications. |
| “Sep 1 14:55:30 chmac kernel[0]: hfs_truncatefs: | | | | Data recovery Mac software are designed to run the |
| couldn't reclaim space on Macintosh HD” | | | | powerful scanning procedure on the Mac hard drive |
| The problem may be the outcome of: | | | | so as to retrieve the lost data. |