[gpro]

i am trying to partition my hard drive so i can install windows xp on my mac pro by useing boot camp but the following error always comes up
"Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (joirnaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try useing boot camp assistant again"

why does this error come up how can i fix it

[freescalpel]

How many hard drives do you have? Do you have a spare drive you can use for bootcamp?

[ghporter]

Um...you can fix it by following the instructions in the error message. It is saying that your disk is so hosed up that you must reformat the entire drive to make it better. So do what it says (back up the and use Disk Utility to format the entire drive, then restore the disk) and try again. An external drive is really handy for this, but with a Mac Pro you have room to do this with an internal drive if you want.

And as freescalpel says, you could use a second drive to act as your Boot Camp drive; Boot Camp only works with internal drives, so with a Mac Pro, you have that option.

[gpro]

i am only use4ing 1 hard drive now and i have to much information to backup . i have the space on a bigger external drive so i might wait till i get another internal hard drive for my macpro

[mfbernstein]

How many partitions do you have on this drive? The BootCamp Utility can be very choosy sometimes.