[djdeuce2001]

my bootcamp has always worked fine but since the last time i uninstalled parallels and deleted my bootcamp partition i am having problems. I tried to partition a 5gb partition tonight and i get a message saying it cant because it cant move files. It says to back up my whole drive and repartition it or something. There is no way i can back up all 90 gb i have installed already, is there a way to fix this so I can use bootcamp again. I hate installing xp as a virtual machine in parallels, I'd rather run it from bootcamp.

[djdeuce2001]

anyone?

[djdeuce2001]

anyone got an idea

[ghporter]

Look at the other thread you posted your issue in-it's got good stuff. Basically, if you choose to not back up, you're on your own, but you probably won't have any problems. Using an external drive to back up to is a Good Idea™ for a number of reasons, and you can get useful, affordable enclosures you just put any drive you want into for "not much money" (I have one I got for about $30 that I put a $99 300GB drive into-it works great!). And again, backing up is a Good Thing® anyway.

You should start by using the Boot Camp Utility (in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder) to "restore the start up disk to a single partition". Once that's done, boot from your OS X install DVD and use Disk Utility to repair the disk appropriately. This process may take a while, but it will make your disk much more reliable because it will fix just about everything.

If the error message told you to reformat, things are even simpler. Back up JUST YOUR DATA AND PROGRAMS, then boot from the install DVD and start fresh. Once you're done with the new installation, restore your data and programs and you're back to a fresh start with a clean drive.