Re: Yet another problem...

Steve de Mena wrote:
GreyCloud wrote:
Nashton wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Nashton wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/c4ynml

Steve


No Steve, it isn't a problem. Boot Camp can *only* be installed on a single volume and it needs to partition the disk itself. It's clearly stated in the instructions. You are wrong....again.

It is a single volume. It's a 320GB hard drive with a single partition. 156 GB free space, with 100GB desired to be set aside for Windows.

Try again.

Note that it spent 7-10 minutes trying to do the partitioning before bombing out.

Do some googling on this and you'll find every suggestion under the sun to resolve this. It's almost funny.

Steve


http://tinyurl.com/d536g8

Try this, unless your only purpose was to bash the Mac and not look for a solution. Also, after having investigated further, you can use a defrag utility for your disk. Another solution is to back up via Time machine or even CCC (excellent utility, btw, I backup my HD every other day on my Xserve and another computer on my LAN, JIC) and reformat the drive, which I recommend.
Furthermore, why use bootcamp and not VMWare or Paralles? It's a much more elegant solution, given the shared folders, coherence mode capabilities and the fact that you don't have to reboot every time you need to use Windows.

CCC is free, btw.

Is it a hassle to get errors like this? You bet it is. Is software perfect? No, it isn't and given your apparent level of knowledge of computers, you really ought to know better.

Personally, I use VMWare.It's faster and more reliable.

I use VMWare as well. I was looking at his iPhoto crash dump list he posted.
It almost looks like steve should run some hardware diagnostics for a while.
It sure looks like a memory timing problem to me.

What would I run to accomplish that? I thought I had the same instability issues with that iPhoto Library on my MacBook Pro, but I could be wrong. The library is 44 GB.


Hmmm.... that shouldn't give you a problem tho at that size.
The whold idea of running the memory test program for a while is to see how
well the memory works under stress. I upgraded my iMac to its full complement of memory
and purchased the memory sticks from Crucial. I noticed that programs that I used to use
now occasionally crash with the "unexpected error in app" message. So I ran the memory
diagnostics for the afternoon and it found that a few memory addresses at the lower end
were giving errors at random. So this may well be why Apple memories are a bit more pricey.
And it may well be that whoever designed the mobo didn't get the timing problems out of it,
making memory a more critical purchase, making Apples memory prices so high.
But I can live with it.


--
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo.
American Government official (1863-1941).
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