[DaveyJJ]

I ran out of space on my 35GB BootCamp partition. I wanted to increase it to 40GB. I used Winclone to make a cloned version of the XP disk and have that safely stored for re-installing.

Then I used BootCamp Assistant to revert to a single OSX partition. No problem. Then tried to create a 40GB new BootCamp partition but got the dreaded "can't create a partition because some files can't be moved" error.

The web tells me that it's clearly a case of a fragmented hard drive. I have 84.5GB free space on my 250GB drive but using iDefrag demo shows it's badly fragmented and there must be some files that can't be reassembled by BootCamp so I can install.

So, anyone here used iDefrag before to solve this problem?

[Dark_Archon]

First boot up using your system restore or Mac OS X 10.5 disc and try repairing the drive in Disk Utility.

[Hansi]

Dark_Archon, on September 13th 2008, 11:05 PM, said:

First boot up using your system restore or Mac OS X 10.5 disc and try repairing the drive in Disk Utility.

Yes this works if you have a number of small files that are causing the fragmentation but for large files you'll need another tools. I do not have experience with iDefrag but Disk Warrior and TechTools Pro are solid applications that offer this feature and I can vouch for.

[teflon]

it is, in fact, a very common issue to try and resize a boot camp drive, only to find that its "too fragmented" Id say that 95% of the time just using the 10.4 or 10.5 (which every youre using) DVD to run disk utility and repair the disk is all thats needed.
In rare cases, try running the disk repair twice and verify after each to see if that has solved the issue.

as already pointed out by DA.

[DaveyJJ]

Ran the Repair on the 10.5 Leopard disk, no joy. It didn't even indicate there was anything to repair. Completed everything without repairing. Also repaired disk permissions as well. No joy. I tried the do the partition again and it looked like is was successful and just started the "Partitioning" stage when it stopped with that same error. I'll try repairing one more time but then spending the $ for the defrag app.

EDIT -- Nope, no joy on second try. Will buy iDefrag in the morning and try that.

[the Battle Cat]

Techtool is much much more than just a defragger. It lets you test most of your hardware as well as does all the disk maintenance procedures.

[DaveyJJ]

I used iDefrag successfully overnight. Full defrag setting and it worked perfectly. Had no trouble this morning creating a new Boot Camp partition and am using Winclone's restore feature to re-install the existing XP build I had.

[teflon]

w00t!
next time you feel the need to resize your windows partition, you better have iDefrag ready, then.
looks like you must have something a bit screwy with your drive in the first place, though its weird that Disk Utility didnt even notice anything was wrong...

[Dark_Archon]

the Battle Cat, on September 14th 2008, 10:45 AM, said:

Techtool is much much more than just a defragger. It lets you test most of your hardware as well as does all the disk maintenance procedures.

When I got rid of a Boot Camp partition in 10.4, it disappeared, but I didn't get the space back on the drive. TechTool was able to fix that while Disk Utility wasn't.