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ed <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 16, 10:32 am, Steve Carroll <trollkil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > In article
> > <f50b7cdf-d40c-4bec-85e4-617327707...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > ed <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On May 16, 10:04 am, Steve Carroll <trollkil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > > In article <C452F5D1.B9C5D%use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > <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. a nicer error message would be nice. also
> > > boot camp assistant- although it claims to prep the install for xp
or
> > > vista- formats your new partition as fat32. vista requires ntfs (so
> > > you need to reformat partition during windows setup), and obviously
xp
> > > works with ntfs, so why not format it as ntfs? weird.
> >
> > Is this related to the Vista bootloader problem?
>
> what vista boot loader problem?
I read about Vista having a boot loader problem when installed on Intel
Macs. People were suggesting using a 3rd party app to fix it... can't
remember the name of the app... 'Easy' something or other. Maybe this is
a pre-Leopard problem... it was awhile ago that I read about it;)
--
"Apple is pu****ng how green this is - but it [Macbook Air] is
clearly disposable... when the battery dies you can pretty much
just throw it away". - Snit
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