[phanteon]

Hi.

i want to give 70 gigs to windows, so i go to boot camp assisant, then set 70gb for win, all the remaining space for OSx (250gb HDD) click next and the partition begins, but when the progress bar is almost the half, it stop working and everything crashes (browsers, finder and boot camp itself).
i have to hold the power button to turn off my macbook.

what shoul i do?????

[ghporter]

Boot from your OS X disc. Select Disk Utility from the Tools menu. Choose your hard drive (not a partition on it) and select "Repair." Let it work-be patient. That should fix the problem.

This is probably related to the failed Boot Camp partitioning you posted about earlier. Boot Camp usually succeeds marvelously, but there is such a difference between the MBR partition for Windows and the OS X journaled partition, when something goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Fixing the problem REQUIRES you to boot from the install disc because Disk Utility can't fix the drive it's running from.

Please do this and post your success!

[phanteon]

yeah but i repaired the previous issue repairing from the installation disk, i tried again and everything is ok, the drive doesn't need to be repaired

[ghporter]

Did you "repair," or did you select a partition to delete? The "repair" option does a lot of things, but if you only went in and deleted the bad partition, or just recovered the space you had dedicated to the failed partition, there are other steps that need taking-which "repair" will do.