Re: boot camp problems

On May 16, 10:32 am, Steve Carroll <trollkil...@xxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<f50b7cdf-d40c-4bec-85e4-617327707...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 ed <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 16, 10:04 am, Steve Carroll <trollkil...@xxxxxx> wrote:
In article <C452F5D1.B9C5D%use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<snip>
How full is the disk?

243GB available of 299GB.

Could be it is fragmented enough to prevent making of partitions... but
that
is just a guess.

Didn't he just get this machine recently?

yup, and the drive in there is only a couple days old- formatted it,
and copied contents to it with superduper!, so it should be basically
not fragmentted at all...

You bought a new internal drive already? Why? Isn't this machine only a
few weeks old?

well, it's almost 3 months old at this point... and i was already
using 55GB out of the 80GB (~75 available). and that's before
partitioning for boot camp, which would have basically made the drive
full.

but the plan was always to upgrade the harddrive sooner rather than
later- it's much cheaper to buy the ram and harddrive aftermarket than
upgrade through apple. i bought 4gb ram for $100 (apple wanted
something like $400 to step up to 4GB) and a 320GB hd for $120 (apple
wanted over $200 to step up to a 250GB)

i actually bought a portable external drive, and took the drive out of
that, as it was cheaper than buying the same drive bare. then i took
the drive that was in the macbook and mounted that back into the
enclosure to have as a backup. so for less money, i have a much
larger drive, for half the money, AND a new bus driven external drive.

turns out the problem the was the partition table was mbr, but boot
camp needs it to be gpt.  a nicer error message would be nice.  also
boot camp assistant- although it claims to prep the install for xp or
vista- formats your new partition as fat32.  vista requires ntfs (so
you need to reformat partition during windows setup), and obviously xp
works with ntfs, so why not format it as ntfs?  weird.

Is this related to the Vista bootloader problem?

what vista boot loader problem? the problem is apparently that boot
camp simply partition a non gpt partition. (that and it picks a dumb
default format.) :p
.

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    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
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