So you’ve probably heard of the game Bioshock. If you know me in person you probably also know that i’m incredibly excited about it. I’m not going to blog about the game right now, i’ll save that for later. But i will tell you a bit about the last couple of hours.
Today the Bioshock pc demo was released, and i urged a colleague of mine here to download and play it. Sadly the PC’s here are your typical dell business machines, nothing fantastic. The end result being that the Bioshock demo ran like hell. You could see that it was supposed to be pretty, you could appreciate the shiny water and the crackling flames. But you couldn’t really move, and that’s kind of important.
If only i had bothered to install bootcamp on my macbook pro..
Yeah, you’ve already guessed what happened next. I backed up my macbook pro, cleared out some space, and started installing bootcamp. Just to install a demo that i’ve completed 4 or 5 times on the xbox360. Not to mention the fact that the game is due out here on Friday, and i’ve preordered the collectors edition!
I started up the bootcamp installer, opted to make a 10GB partition for XP (i was using 6 or 7 gig for my parallels XP install, and that was going fine) and clicked continue.
Bootcamp Partition Error: “Files cannot be moved”
Bugger, wasn’t expecting that.
The installer explained that i needed to “repair” my drive. I’m in the habit of repairing my permissions almost every day, so i instinctively did that… only to get a new error message telling me that there were files bootcamp couldn’t move. The installers suggestion was to back up my entire drive, format, and then pull my backups back over before trying to install bootcamp. No chance!
I thought for a while, what kind of file would cause the problem… My first thought was parallels, perhaps it’s having difficulty with the protected files it uses. So i deleted parallels – to no avail. I got rid of incomplete Bittorrent downloads, and large video files. I got rid of temporary Final Cut files. Nothing.
Then it clicked.
I wasn’t repairing my disc, i was repairing the permissions. So i tried to verify the disk.
Of course, luckily for me you can’t repair the disc you’re currently booted from.. and i didn’t have my OS discs with me to boot from. Woo.
Just as i was about to give up i remembered that booting into safe mode runs fsck.. or something like it anyway. So i did just that (if you ended up here looking for a solution to the problem, you can enter safe mode by pressing shift as soon as you hear the boot chime, and holding it till the rotating “wheel” appears under the apple icon.. it’ll take a while to book into OSX, but one it does you can just restart to get back into OSX normally.). After i was back in the OS i ran Disk Utility again.
Woo!
Woo!
Apparently there are 31 minutes remaining on my XP install.. hopefully things will remain this smooth.
Edit: It went fine. XP is installed.. though i can’t seem to connect to our wireless access point here..
Tags: bootcamp, error, game, mac, osx, windows, xbox
I even devoted a bunch of time to getting the simple progress indicator buttons the way i wanted them. It’s not often i’m inspired enough to let the user know how much more they have to do ;).
