[onlykaria]

i ran disk utility and did the repair and verifications on my HD. have all the updates, but boot camp utility will not let me partition the drive it keeps saying i need to verifiy and repair permissions??? what gives?

[BkueKanoodle]

Make sure you are running the disk utility off of the Install DVD, not the copy loaded on your hdd. It doe smake a difference when you are trying to repai a boot volume

[onlykaria]

Originally Posted by BkueKanoodle

Make sure you are running the disk utility off of the Install DVD, not the copy loaded on your hdd. It doe smake a difference when you are trying to repai a boot volume

yep. i have done both.

[ghporter]

Have you tried downloading Boot Camp again? It's mildly possible that there's a corrupt bit or two in your current version.

[onlykaria]

hmmm

still no go. sucks, i dont know why its not working.

[Daveecee]

I'm having the exact same problem. Except for me, my OS X disc won't even boot. I hold down C while restarting, and instead (eventually) the disk just ejects and the computer starts up normally.

[onlykaria]

i have no idea why its doing this.

[onlykaria]

bump... still having the same issue, hope someone here might be of help...

[Moose]

Originally Posted by onlykaria

bump... still having the same issue, hope someone here might be of help...

How much free space you got on your HD?

[onlykaria]

Originally Posted by Moose

How much free space you got on your HD?

60gb

but since i cant get this working at all. and no one seems to know whats wrong, i just paid for paralelles but i am at the xp boot screen where you have to press f8 to agree to the license but the f8 key does not want to work as f8 its just turning the keyboard backlight off on my MBP

[Moose]

Originally Posted by onlykaria

but the f8 key does not want to work as f8 its just turning the keyboard backlight off on my MBP

Fn-F8

(Fn's the extreme lower-left key on your keyboard.)

[onlykaria]

Originally Posted by Moose

Fn-F8

(Fn's the extreme lower-left key on your keyboard.)

that makes a TON more sense than the f8 key LOL!!! thank you!!

its been months i have trying to get xp on here, so i hope para will do what boot camp cant.

[Moose]

Originally Posted by onlykaria

that makes a TON more sense than the f8 key LOL!!! thank you!!

There's a setting somewhere in System Preferences where you can select whether you want that top row to default to performing the functions (contrast, volume, keyboard backlight) or to sending the actual F1-F12 key events.

[onlykaria]

Originally Posted by Moose

There's a setting somewhere in System Preferences where you can select whether you want that top row to default to performing the functions (contrast, volume, keyboard backlight) or to sending the actual F1-F12 key events.

i am going to have to do that.

i had to turn off sticky keys because windows xp doesnt like it)

[ScottieBoy]

Originally Posted by onlykaria

i ran disk utility and did the repair and verifications on my HD. have all the updates, but boot camp utility will not let me partition the drive it keeps saying i need to verifiy and repair permissions??? what gives?

Hi, i'm getting the same issue with that damn boot camp assistant. Did you ever hear of anyone fixing the partition verification failure??

I don't really want to purchase Parallels and run the two O/S's at the same time. Really would appreciate any help.

Thanks

[mfussell]

I got the same error about can not partition w/o repairing the disk, so i booted with the Startup DVD that came with the Mac Mini and repaired disk permissions (and repaired Disk) that way, and it allowed me to install XP.