I have two HDDs in my iMac (OS 10.7.5 - Lion) both of which are partitioned as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" (according to Disk Utility).
Here's the two drives:
df -l -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 107Gi 50Gi 57Gi 48% /
/dev/disk0s4 190Gi 34Gi 156Gi 19% /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2
I started up Bootcamp in order to install Windows 8 to the 2nd Harddrive (which I don't think has the OS installed - though I'm not sure or how to find out if it is).
Bootcamp then throws an error saying:
**The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.**
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows
Furthermore the option "Install or remove Windows 7" is disabled.
I'm a Mac newbie (I come from the Windows world), so I'm not sure what this is about. All I want to do is leave the primary (and only) partition on disk0s2
and add a Win8 partition to disk0s4
.
What do I need to do?
/dev/disk0s4
) and create a third for Windows. If you create it as FAT, it will probably create a hybrid MBR, which should then enable you to install Windows. DO NOT re-partition the disk using the Windows installer, though; just install straight to the FAT partition that the Windows installer should see.