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bootcamp verify failed..repair doesnt help
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i tried partitioning using bootcamp to later install windows....first time i tried bootcamp crashed leaving me having to repair using my live DVD macosx..
afterwards i tried to partition again but bootcamp keeps telling me that it cant verify the disk ....i tried repairing again but that doesnt help ....
i read that one can also use fsck -f or -fy but when i try to use that it tells me that it doesnt know that command
(i booted using applekey + s for single user mode....then typed fsck -f and also tried /sbin/fsck -f and -fy but it doesnt seem to know those commands)
so now i dont know what to do ...repair says everything is fine ....fsck doesnt work and bootcamp says it cant verify....
help pls = )...
thx
semse
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Welcome to the MacNN Forums!
Can you tell me HOW you repaired the disk? Your post isn't clear about that—I've never heard of a "live DVD" of OS X. If you did it through OS X's GUI, that won't do what you need. You MUST boot from your OS X install disc and use Disk Utility from the Tools menu in order to do the kind of repair you need.
The DRIVE itself needs a repair (a minor one almost always) and this is not at all uncommon. Further, you need to repair the basic drive, not one of the volumes. This is the part that trips most people up because they're used to not worrying about the hardware details (it's a Mac after all...). Once you have opened Disk Utility from the install disc, select the topmost entry in the drives column (which should be labeled with the hardware details of your drive, as in "298.1GB WDC WD3200...") and then select Repair.
For what it's worth, factory OS X installations are frequently anything but compact, with files scattered all over the disk, reducing the amount of free space for Boot Camp to use to make the Windows partition. There are also frequent situations where the factory disk image is not quite "right" in terms of all the flags and data structures, so Boot Camp can't do its thing.
Again, WELCOME!
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"You MUST boot from your OS X install disc and use Disk Utility from the Tools menu in order to do the kind of repair you need."
that is exactly what I did (The mac install disk is kind of a live DVD btw  ) and I repaired the Harddisk not the volume ...and I did it more than once...what is also interesting is that when i verify it using disk utility with the install disk it says everything is ok but when i verify using disk utility in MAC OSX (10.5 btw) it says it found a minor header error ..... but then when i repair it says everything is fine...very weird...thx for your help ....still no solution though 
thx..
semse
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Does Boot Camp give you the option to "return the startup disk to a single volume?" If it does, it thinks it sees another partition, and using that option should get you back to a starting point. From there, repair the hard drive (again) and see if that helps.
If that doesn't change anything, you may have a flaky drive, or something else may be going wrong.
P.S., I think of "live" discs as ones that let you run pretty much the whole OS, and the installer doesn't really do that. I guess it's just a difference of wording...
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having a flaky drive sounds really bad ... i dont have any windows partition, i already deleted it with bootcamp ..so ..yeah, i think ill have to format the drive and try it with a fresh install of mac osx ...if anyone is interested in the results then i can post them here...
greetz
semse
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I do want to hear how it goes. A clean install should, believe it or not, give you a better utilized disk than the factory image did. And from there, at least you know the starting condition of the partitions, so you can make decisions based on real data.
Good luck!
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Originally Posted by semse 
having a flaky drive sounds really bad ... i dont have any windows partition, i already deleted it with bootcamp ..so ..yeah, i think ill have to format the drive and try it with a fresh install of mac osx ...if anyone is interested in the results then i can post them here...
greetz
semse
Unfortunately this happened to me as well, word for word. I just recently happened about 2 months ago. Except I made the mistake and tried to continue to install windows and it over wrote my Mac partition 
Please do post your outcome though, good luck!
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