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• An error occurred when to partition the drive

  I have a MBP 2012 retina end 13 "El Capitan 10.11.6

  The hard drive in the machine is swapped with Transcend SSD of retinaTRIM is not enabled.

  I'm trying to install 10 Windows using Boot Camp, and I get this error.

  An error occurred when to partition the drive

  Your drive cannot be partitioned.

  I've tried-

  • reset the PRAM,
  • First aid running in the desktop utility and
  • running/sbin/fsck - AF in single user Mode.

  Nothing has worked.

  Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Maybe you have not enough contiguous free space to create the partition.

• Partition the drive, then restore from Time Machine?

  An iMac that I just died. She used Time Machine as a backup to an external drive. I want to resurrect the content of the iMac on an existing MacBook Pro, I own. Does make sense to partition the hard drive in the MacBook Pro and then migrate all data on the hard drive partition? The MacBook Pro is on OS 10.11.1; the iMac ran an earlier version of El Capitan.

  Does make sense to partition the hard drive in the MacBook Pro...

  and then migrate all data on the hard drive partition?

  Not really.

  Mac OS X is basically a system of multiple users. If you do not create a user, it does not behave differently. Daily use with a user, it can give the illusion that you have the entire machine, but this isn't what is actually happening.

  Mac OS X keeps always files in home directory for each user completely separate from each of the other files of the user (if any) and which is separated from system directories.

  What would be much smarter is to carefully consider the names of affected users. If they are already different, simply migrate data iMac user a new account on the MacBook.

  There is no need to have another partition, another copy of an almost identical system or additional copies of applications - you need the data of the user and must use Time Machine to restore all this user account, and no more.

• How to partition the drive in Windows 7?

  I have Norton Ghost, which can create a backup for exisiting C: to restore image.

  My laptop doesn't receive a C: drive, and I want to the C: and D: partition and would like to know how to do it.  Should I compress the drive before performing any partition?

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Hi, OEM,

  To create a new primary partition, please see the following tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2674-partition-volume-create-new.html.  Compression should not be held.  If it is necessary because of space constraints, you should reconsider the idea that he will not be a matter of time before you run out of space if it takes to make it work.  In addition, I generally recommend no compression.  But read it, because I will recommend a different approach to what you want to do anyway (space issues aside).

  Consider, if your goal is to use this new partition to store a backup image of the C: partition, then it of OK and can help you in many situations.  However, what happens if the hard drive fails completely?  Your backup went along with your main partition operations, then you are watered.

  While you can do this way as precautionary backup extra (I personally would do so not because it is not a safe method to make backups and is really not worth if you do I will move then, but it's your decision), you really are not fully protected from a backup perspective.  In essence, the rule is never backup on the same hard disk.

  Instead, I recommend buying an external USB HDD and backup on that instead.  This way if the laptop hard drive completely fails (as opposed to simply a failure of the system or corruption on the C partition :), you will have the external HARD disk drive to save you.

  I hope this helps!

  Good luck and best wishes.

  Kosh

• Can not format or partition the drive HARD on Satellite M30

  I have a Toshiba Satellite model No. PSM30E
  And the system is unable to access the HARD disk.
  When I check the Bios setup it can detect the HARD drive.

  When I run windows setup to boot from the CD he sees the HARD disk with the correct size, but it cannot create partitions on it or if it can format the HARD drive. I tried the HARD disk partitioning using another system and I was able to partition and format. But when I plug in the laptop he sees just the whole HARD disk in unpartitioned space and also does not format them or partitioning it.

  Y at - it shaped a locking mechanism that prevents access to the disk partitioning or setting?
  My other question is, perhaps, the problem of the IDE connector?

  Any suggestions or help?

  Hello

  I don t think there is something wrong with the IDE controller. Fact is that the BIOS do not show simple partitions but only whole HARD disk size.
  I put t know how you tried to format the HARD disk or to create partitions on this disk HARD but in fact different OS uses the standards of different format and this may the reason for your problems!

  I think you should try to boot from the original Windows XP CD. Let's launch the setup and format the whole HARD drive and erase all partitions!
  I noticed that Toshiba recovery CD couldn t runs correctly on wrong formatted HDD!

• Messed up installing bootcamp. Help restore the partition of drive of Fusion.

  Hey, guys and girls. My install bootcamp froze. Now, my Fusion 3 TB drive is only show 756.3Gig. I was in recovery and tried to repair the disk. But, the remaining space is not displayed. How can I reconfigure the disk to show? Of course, I want to partition the drive bootcamp. Thank you!

  See below for my drive configuration:

  

  I have the same problem, I partitioned my drive of bootcamp and something went wrong with the installation, now I can't access it. It's not even show in the utility disk or startup disk.

• How to partition the HARD on Satellite L300 drive?

  I'm crazy little go! I just bought a laptop L300 and I was totally reassured I was able to partition the drive. I have partitioned many readers in my life and know what I'm doing (for the most part)-, but this one - I can send it to the store.

  It has a 250 GB hard drive - main drive c, d of smaller volume and 2 hidden volumes. I have 4 other volumes (personal, music, images and desktop). I used the Vista partition utility and it won't let me (it is said that it will create dynamic disks - I want just simple additional disk volumes) and the shop recommended Disk Director

  Can someone tell me how to do this - it's a simple operation on all the other computers I bought

  Jennifer

  Hello

  If you create the own Toshiba recovery disc then you're definitely on the safe side.
  The use of the recovery disk would fix the laptop to the factory setting.
  It also means that the HARD drive would be a format too.

  The recovery disc formats the HARD whole disc first, erases all partitions, and then creates the partitions and installs the operating system with all the tools and drivers Toshiba.

  Greetings

• Can I use the HP Recovery partition after formatting and partitioning the rest of the hard drive?

  I recently had my HP Pavilion dv4 2145dx laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) go kerput.  The Geek Squad said that the motherboard is dead.  I bought a laptop and I use this one for now, and I use the former dv4 as external hard drive.

  I intend to continue to use the hard drive from the old dv4 as an external unresolved for now, but I wish we could fix the dv4 at some point in the future.  Here's the problem: to get the most out of the former dv4 as external drive, I want to repartition it so that there is an NTFS partition and one HFS partition +.  This way I could easily use it with my Mac and Windows machines.

  But if I do that, I'm not sure if the image of HP recovery would continue to operate.  If it does not, then if/when I get the old dv4 a new motherboard, I couldn't restore the operating system from the recovery partition.  It is a problem, because I have not create recovery disks (stupid, I know - I'm definitely making them for the new machine).

  So, I want to do these two things:

  (1) create my dv4 recovery disks.  Can I do this if the dv4 drive is mounted in an external enclosure?

  (2) format and partition the drive dv4 (the leaving intact recovery partition) and later to recover the system from the recovery partition.  The recovery partition would continue to operate in these conditions?

  Thanks for any help that anyone is obtained.

  Hello:

  What you do to the C:\drive will make the ineffective recovery partition.

  You will not be able to create a set of recovery discs unless the drive is usable in Notepad.

  Can you still read all 25 characters of your product key of W7 on the bottom of your laptop broken?

  If so, you can do this...

  If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.

  Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.

  Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.

  http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

  Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.

  The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.

  Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.

  Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.

  http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/

  Or, you can probably still order a set of recovery disc for your HP laptop.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/bph07143

  Paul

• Partitioning hard drive, I want to spend 30/40 GB drive and the remaining space for the creation of other partitions.

  I created a recovery disc for my system that I bought the new laptop.
  It consist of 500 GB HARD drive, now the problem is the C - drive which is my WIN7 Home Basic installed occupies 400 GB of space and the D-drive has only 25 GB.
  My problem is I want to partition the drive C so that the other player must occupy the space according to my condition.
  But here its only gives me half the space to shrink.
  I mean, when I opened diskmgmt to shrink, C this is 200 GB disk space allotted to me.
  Medium I can use this space to create other partitions, but what I want is, I want to spend 30/40 GB C drive and the remaining space for the creation of other partitions.
  Help, please... Thnks...

  That's what we tried to tell you. An OEM installation does not lend itself to change and having to clear guarantees for re-setup means that you must be quite certain that you have other reliable ways to re-setup.

  If you want to dabble with Linux or dual boot, you should buy a complete commercial edition of Windows 7 that will give you more flexibility and accept that for drivers etc, you're on your own...

• ERestoring of CD on the larger disk after a failure of the drive - new drive preparation necessary?

  You want to ensure that I have the process down before you begin...

  My Acer Aspire AX1301-U1302 small form factor desktop hard drive (windows 7) has failed for a period of 5 minutes yesterday. I can't start Windows. (I assume that the disk is done - data recovery is a different matter).

  I have a set of recovery and driver disc discs, that I did when I unpacked the computer and it starts.

  I pulled the drive (750 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA).

  I bought a Seagate Barracuda SATA 2 TB drive.

  My next steps:

  (1) install the new drive physically and seal machine.

  (2) will light up

  3) go to setup

  optical drive boot of course make 4) is selected

  (5) Insert the first recovery disc in the optical drive

  (6) allow the startup of the computer on the CD

  (7) follow the instructions from the recovery disks

  Issues related to the:

  (1) what I need to partition or to format or prepare the new drive anyway before the process described above (that is to say create a partition or something)?

  (2) the recovery disks work on a bigger than the OEM drive?

  (3) I missed something else?

  Thank you

  Problem solved.

  Despite no answer precise questions of formatting and partitioning with a new drive that I asked above search Acer or Google, the installation went well. The hot Virgin spare was automatically partitioned and formatted by the recovery without intervention of the user software.

  The hardest part was to push the open DVD button at the right time so I could insert the recovery disk...

  As in the first post, I opened the folder and pulled out the bad 750 GB drive. I took the new Seagate barracuda 2 t and hung just as the old drive was - no need to change the jumpers, or anything like that. Under tension. No need to change the bios or boot order as following default startup source is CD/DVD if the primary drive does not start. Message came 'boot from atapi CD... "But then he dumped for a start-up network to try because I had not had the chance to put the first disc of recovery and as a result there is no CD/DVD in the drive. Rebooted a couple of times, hit the open DVD button like crazy until he opened at the right time and I could put the disc in.

  Once in the context of road and starting, the Acer Windows 7 recognized recovery disk the new drive to 2t without problem, asked me what kind of food I wanted (os only against entire disk - I said full disk), formatted and partitioned the drive in quiet mode (no message about implementing shaped or partitioning came to the top of all (, not even the State - no prompt, no questions asked no other software required) and began installing windows 7. I have followed the instructions, kept power in the 3 CD because they have claimed and finally had a windows system 7.

  Overall, get a defective hard drive to a fresh windows 7 installation was painless. Now if I can only figure out how to use Acronis/seagate diskwizard and Recuva to get the key out of the disc files failing...

• Can I partition a drive hard once Windows XP Professional is installed

  I will get a new computer with XP installed on a 500 GB drive.  Is it possible to partition the drive in 100 and 400 GB so that I can move my data files on the second partition, and thus be able to restore the operating system if necessary without destroyin my data. I have a feeling that partitioning must be done before XP is installed, but I'm not sure.

  Thank you very much

  If you drag from left to right or right depends on if you want the unallocated space (where ira your new partition) before or after the partition, you are working on.  As a general rule, it is best to have the system partition (usually C) to near the beginning of the training (i.e. the left end) as possible.  Thus, drag the right edge of the C partition to the left.

  It's a bit difficult to describe without drawing but see if that helps-

  Suppose you have a 500 GB drive with a 500 GB C partition.  It will look like this:

  CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

  Now assume that the amount of "space used" is 80 GB.  The space that is used with "BOLD", your disc looks like this:

  CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

  Now, you want to create a new partition of 400 GB.  Call the E (because D is your CD player - but the letters can be changed later).  You must resize C to leave space unallocated after him (right).  To do this, drag the right end of the C partition to the left:

  CCCCCCCCCCCCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  Now use the unallocated space and make your new partition

  CCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

• Load the driver - A required CD/DVD driver is missing

  I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, and at the time of installation, I get the following message:

  A required CD/DVD device driver is missing. I f you have a driver disk, CD/DVD or player of the USN, please insert it now.

  I guess only he eans there not a device driver for the CD/DVD that contains the installation disk. Which drive do I need and why is it not standard on Windows 7 installation cd?

  Hello

  The following message by Bummed about the details of the Support Forums Windows 7 how he got it past: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/a43574ad-e8d0-4d9e-aa86-6ddfda1e9079/Bummed Tuesday, may 12, 2009 18:25

  

  OK, so after three days to try and fight with the installation I have WIN7 RC 7100 64 bit operating.

  Given that many people had with missing driver CD/DVD, error I was blocked I'll list the steps I took to work. Before I did anything, I downloaded a free copy of Boot disc Hiren with Patch keyboard just in case I had of problems (freeware and easy enough to find if you google it). I found myself only use it for the DOS prompt but hey - ho...

  Some of these steps may seem redundant, but ultimately, this is what took the OS for me:

  1 partition and reformat HD's BACK with the commands FDISK and FORMAT C:

  2. install a Vista 64 bit version which, in turn, re-partitioned the drive itself

  3. once Vista was running (does not have a code because I knew that I wouldn't be on it for a long time) inserted the RC 64 bit DVD

  4. in the install window, I ran the check compatibility online tool

  5. He told me that my ITE IT8211 ATA/ATAPI controller must be updated in order to install

  6 Ran Wizard to update to Vista which has found a new driver for the ITE IT8211 ATA/ATAPI

  7 rebooted Vista 64 to finalize the updates updated (removed DVD RC while restarting disk)

  8. once started, re-insert the DVD of the RC, click on install and went through all the normal installation steps.

  Again, this may seem unnecessary (as the FDISK / FORMAT) time, but ultimately it's what works and what I've been through, the problem people seem to have with the CD/DVD driver not found is that the ITE IT8211 ATA/ATAPI controller is not updated. I couldn't find a place to just "Download driver" and put it on a drive flash or something, I got allow windows to do that I hope it will not be the people back. I'm not enough common sense to see if you can install the driver in another way.

  Hope that this info is of use to someone and if anyone has questions, feel free to leave a message and I'll check it out later today.

  Many thanks to Amrooz and Java_az who helped along the way!

  David
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Can I change the drive letter of the recovery partition?

  HP P7-1235, Win7 64 bit running. 1 TB HARD DRIVE

  I usually partition my hard drive, so that my data is separate from the operating system and applications.  the operating system is the C: partition, and my data is generally D:.  The problem is: "D:" is used by the recovery partition.

  I can change his letter to something else, and recovery still works?

  Hello

  Well, everything has been said on this subject and its okay.

  It's better to not touch the D: partition, set another letter to your other partiion, if you change the recovery partition, you won't be able to use it.

  But you can also do a thing, you can go ahead and create your copy of the recovery disks, just enter some DVD, create your copy of the recovery Image, then you can change the drive letter of the partition Recovery to E: or even delete that.

  A copy of records RRS, you can always use them to again state of the plant, and that will reformat all your partitions, create the recovery disks and do what you want and prefer with you D: partiion.

  Thank you

• How to partition the hard drive

  Hi, anyone knows how to disable partition the hard drive? Getting sick of the transfer of information between C: and E: Paulette

  Go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.

  Do right click on E a remove it. After that, you should be able to enlarge C with right click and choose the option of not. But you'll have to save files on E first, so as not to lose them.

  If this does not work for any reason, you will still be able to use 3rd programs like partition magic. I've used several times and I am very happy with it.

• Satellite M70 - after HARD drive partitioned, the OS does not start

  Hello

  Good then this is a real doozy, and I hope that someone will help.

  I started to fix my satellite m70 girlfriends using the disc of recovery etc, everything went fantastic, the HARD disk has been erased and Windows + all software has been reinstalled.

  Then I thought it would be a good idea to use partition magic to partition the hard drive, so I chose the main hard drive and cut 10GB of it to put in place a new partition.

  I rebooted, and then after Windows restarted again completed.

  NOW, it does not charge, it says no operating system, so I tried to start with the recovery disk and all over again...

  If I click on continue (to start the recovery process), however it is said now that the "Error #1828", free space is too small.

  I'm really angry that this has happened and I just want to start over again.

  Can someone help me with this?
  I can't access the Bios either (not sure if that might help), because I don't know the password (must be a fault im not aware of).

  Help, please.

  Thank you
  SG

  I think that this is the reason why you used a tool to change the size of the partition. At best, this should be done before you install Windows and 10 GB is a little too small for Windows. You must use at least 15-20 GB for the first partition where the BONE is placed.

  To resolve this problem, you must delete all existing partitions before using the recovery disk. Therefore, you can use a Windows XP disk or something else. Just boot from it and delete all partitions. Then the recovery disk should work.
  Check it!