Or, you mentioned something about Time Machine - you could also just do a full TM backup.Ģ) reboot from OS X install disk and now reformat your drive as HFS extended (journaled).ģa) if you have a TM backup, next install a fresh copy of OSX on your clean drive and then restore the rest of your apps and user data from your TM backup when the installer asks you if you want to do thatģb) OR if you don't have TM backup - instead of reinstalling the OS, just use SuperDuper to clone the external drive back to your internal hard driveĪfter (3a) or (3b) you should now have your OS X stuff back on the drive but now all free space should be contiguous. Under Windows Disk manager shows exactly how space is allocated on the disk drivers and free space etc. personally, I recommend using SuperDuper! The type depends on the model/year of your Mac. This can be in the form of a DVD, flash drive or partition on a drive. it's trying to tell your existing OS X installation is fragmented and not enough space for a contiguous 2nd partition.ġ) first back up your entire drive to an external disk. A partition with a NTFS volume can be resized by booting to the Windows installation media. 15 on VirtualBox in a simple way, or install macOS Catalina 10. If so, I've heard that bootcamp needs a large enough unfragmented chunk of disk space on your drive to be able to set up your Windows partition, otherwise it stops with this error. Use Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition.
