Moving a Parallels Desktop for Mac Virtual Machine to Boot Camp to be used by Parallels
December 18, 2008 – 12:34 pmby Jake D
Problems Running Boot Camp Assistant
I began by opening up Boot Camp Assistant to start the a new Windows XP installation.
Boot Camp's first screen
About to attempt to partition with 18GB for Windows
The Boot Camp Assistant seemed to be running fine…
Boot Camp Assistant after I pressed the "Partition" button
But then it stopped and I got an error window inside Boot Camp Assistant:
Error given to me by Boot Camp Assistant
There are two things that come to mind:
- I have had an issue with Boot Camp before, where my disk was so defragmented that it could not find a big enough “chunk” of space to create the partition. I solved this the last time by buying iDefrag and defragging my drive with a boot disk created with iDefrag.
- Perhaps I could listen to the error and repair this disk. This involves finding my Apple Leopard install DVD, booting from DVD, and running a “Repair” on my Macintosh volume.
Using iDefrag
My first try was to use iDefrag. I started it and ran a “Quick (on-line)”, which doesn’t require a boot disk, and the Mac can still be running. (I didn’t have a blank DVD at the time)
iDefrag running a "Quick (on-line)" Defrag
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