[themighty]

I had both Bootcamp and Paralles for a while, but decided to get rid of them. Now I want to load Bootcamp again, but I'm facing a lot of problems and I'm not sure what to do.

When I try to partition the disk using Boot Camp Assistant, I get the error "Verification failed. This disk could not be partitioned. Use Disk Utility to repair this disk."

When I go to Disk Utility, I select the volume, and click Verify disk. It appears to be verifying the disk, but I then get the message "First Aid failed. Disk Utility stopped verifying "Orange Juice"(the name of my laptop) because the follwing error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit" and

"Verifying volume “Orange Juice”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
%)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 4544029 instead of 4543674)",2)

The volume Orange Juice needs to be repaired.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair"

Looking online, I heard I should give DiskWarrior a shot, but I'm getting errors on that too. I installed DiskWarrior 4 in Applications, select Directory, select Orange Juice, and it says "Directory cannot be rebuilt, because this is the startup disk. Directory cannot be rebuilt, DiskWarrior resides on this disk." I can still create a Graph, which shows 28% errors (or something like that), but I can't rebuild.

So what should I do? All I want is to be able to run Windows on my Mac. I could do it before, why can't I do it now?

[ghporter]

You're running Disk Utility on "volumes" when you need to run it on your DRIVE. That's an important distinction. In order for DU to access the basic disk structures, you have to boot from your OS X install disc. Once it finishes booting, select the "Tools" menu and from that choose Disk Utility. Now you will be able to select not just volumes on the disk but the disk itself. Tell DU to fix the disk and you should be good to go.

For what it's worth, I had to do this just to get Boot Camp to partition my drive in the first place-and my computer was about six months old at the time. It's a minor hassle-that could be explained much better in error messages and the BC documentation.