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ed <news@[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...
>
> 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.
Might be because OS X doesn't have full read/write access to NTFS out of
the box, so using FAT32 makes it easier for users to transfer files to
and from the Windows partition.
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