On May 16, 10:32=A0am, Steve Carroll <trollkil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article
> <f50b7cdf-d40c-4bec-85e4-617327707...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> =A0ed <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On May 16, 10:04=A0am, Steve Carroll <trollkil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > In article <C452F5D1.B9C5D%use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > <snip>
> > > > >> How full is the disk?
>
> > > > > 243GB available of 299GB.
>
> > > > Could be it is fragmented enough to prevent making of
partitions... =
but
> > > > that
> > > > is just a guess.
>
> > > Didn't he just get this machine recently?
>
> > yup, and the drive in there is only a couple days old- formatted it,
> > and copied contents to it with superduper!, so it should be basically
> > not fragmentted at all...
>
> You bought a new internal drive already? Why? Isn't this machine only a
> few weeks old?
well, it's almost 3 months old at this point... and i was already
using 55GB out of the 80GB (~75 available). and that's before
partitioning for boot camp, which would have basically made the drive
full.
but the plan was always to upgrade the harddrive sooner rather than
later- it's much cheaper to buy the ram and harddrive aftermarket than
upgrade through apple. i bought 4gb ram for $100 (apple wanted
something like $400 to step up to 4GB) and a 320GB hd for $120 (apple
wanted over $200 to step up to a 250GB)
i actually bought a ****table external drive, and took the drive out of
that, as it was cheaper than buying the same drive bare. then i took
the drive that was in the macbook and mounted that back into the
enclosure to have as a backup. so for less money, i have a much
larger drive, for half the money, AND a new bus driven external drive.
> > turns out the problem the was the partition table was mbr, but boot
> > camp needs it to be gpt. =A0a nicer error message would be nice.
=A0also=
> > boot camp assistant- although it claims to prep the install for xp or
> > vista- formats your new partition as fat32. =A0vista requires ntfs (so
> > you need to reformat partition during windows setup), and obviously xp
> > works with ntfs, so why not format it as ntfs? =A0weird.
>
> Is this related to the Vista bootloader problem?
what vista boot loader problem? the problem is apparently that boot
camp simply partition a non gpt partition. (that and it picks a dumb
default format.) :p
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