[WassonA]

Friend of mine contacted me about installing bootcamp/parallels on his girlfriends MBP. Im running bootcamp/parallels on my MB with not a problem.

When I run bootcamp to split the partition it would tell me that bootcamp cannot verify the disk. So I followed its directions and checked the permissions and such. Tried to repartition again and the same result was acquired. Did some searching online and came across getting into single user mode and running the file system check. It found a few errors but bootcamp still failed. I went a different route and used the Leopard disk to check the system. Bootcamp still failed. Ive actually received the "Needs to be rebooted" screen.


Is there anything that anyone knows that would solve/get me on the right path?

Thanks

[ghporter]

Welcome to the MacNN Forums!

I'm not sure about a Boot Camp "can't verify volume" error message, but I'd like more information about what you did when you "checked permissions and such." Repairing the startup disk appropriately requires that you boot from your OS X disc and run Disk Utility from the Tools menu - while booted into the OS X disc. This is critical: Disk Utility can't do anything to the structure of the startup disk when you're running OS X from that disk, so you have to boot from the install disc. Usually this fixes any problems Boot Camp has with running and partitioning the drive.

Please post the specific error Boot Camp generates, and specifically what you did to try to correct the problem-we can work from that to help you out.

[WassonA]

Found an interesting piece of information that lead me to rebuild the laptop. The laptop was only a few months old and wasnt excessively used yet there were 60 gigs missing from the harddrive. I asked the owner and she said that she didnt used it enough to know why that much storage space was missing. After talking for a while we decided that the best thing to do was back up her important documents and pictures, then redo the OS. I rebuilt the system with the Leopard disk, then ran bootcamp (which worked) installed xp and then parallels. When I left it was updating xp at 1am.

[ghporter]

Yup. The images Apple installs on Mac Books and MBPs seem to be pretty fragmented. Not the files-not at all! But the free space, which is incredibly important when trying to install Boot Camp. Glad you got it working.