For users, who want dual booting between Mac OS X and Windows XP or Vista, Boot Camp will allow you to do so. This is an assistance tool, which comes with Leopard and works on Intel based Macintosh systems. The software lets you have safe repartitioning of the Mac hard drive and helps installing Windows.

But, due to one or the other reasons, some users are reporting a strange error with the software. When the user attempts repartitioning with the application, the following error may pop up:

“The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.

Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS X Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again”

Also, if you look in /var/logs/system.log file for further descriptive look of the problem, the error may be like:

“Sep 1 14:55:30 chmac kernel[0]: hfs_truncatefs: couldn’t reclaim space on Macintosh HD”

The problem may be the outcome of:

Ø Operating system installation faults

Ø Parallels VM marked unmovable

Ø Insufficient Disk Space

Ø External drives connected

Ø Sharing Options turned on

So try resolving the issue by reinstalling the operating system, deleting the parallels VM file, freeing the hard disk from useless and large files, disconnecting the external drives or turning off the sharing options. See if, either of them helps. But, make sure that you have all the data backed up before reinstalling OS, unless to require Mac data recovery.

However, Boot Camp also put restriction on the Windows partition that the lowest limit must be of 5 GB and it must leave the same amount of free space for Mac partition. So see, if this is not creating the problem.

And those, who have lost data due to installation of Mac OS or while deleting some important file can have Mac recovery with the third party applications. Data recovery Mac software are designed to run the powerful scanning procedure on the Mac hard drive so as to retrieve the lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery software is counted top in list, whenever Mac data recovery utilities are counted. This Mac recovery utility is safe and effective to recover the lost data in any case. Equipped with the interactive interface, this data recovery Mac software is compatible with HFS, HFS+, HFSX and HFS Wrapper file systems.