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    Boot camp issues

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by InTIMadator, Apr 16, 2007.

  1. InTIMadator

    InTIMadator Notebook Guru

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    HI I just tried to run boot camp for the first time and I could not get passed the partitioning part. It said there was an error. I later found out that I already have a Mac Osextened (journaled) drive aswell. I have no idea where this came from. The one that is the extended seems to have all my data. Is there a way to remove one of these and save my data, or do I need to wipe one out so I can get one partition. And if so how do I do that?
     
    InTIMadator, Apr 16, 2007
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  2. l33t_c0w

    l33t_c0w Notebook Deity

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    Hey, sounds like you may have a missconception or two about bootcamp. The way it's supposed to work is, from within OS X, you run the Bootcamp Assistant. That gives you the option to burn a drivers cd, and to create a Windows partition, making room by resizing your OS X partition. Once you've created a Windows partition from there, you boot to a Windows install disk, and install to that partition.

    The extended journaled partition you're seeing would be where OS X and all your programs and files live.
     
    l33t_c0w, Apr 18, 2007
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