The current versions of Mac OS X lets you install Windows OS on your Mac machine, by making it dual-boot. It is possible through Book Camp. The configuration is pretty easy and safe for the Mac files. After completion of the installation, you can boot your computer either using Mac or Windows OS. however, sometimes, the Boot Camp process may fail halfway and make your system unusable. This behavior calls for hard drive formatting, which eventually causes data loss.
When the dual-boot confirmation fails, you may not be able to boot the system if you use Mac OS X . At the time of failure, you may encounter error messages similar to the following:
“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 Extended volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.”
Similarly, if you try to remove the Boot Camp volume, the below error occurs:
“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.”
Cause
You may encounter this problem if your Mac OS X hard disk is corrupt or inaccessible by the Boot Camp program. In case you try to remove the Boot Camp partition, the error occurs if Windows partition is set as active.
Resolution
Try using the below mentioned steps to carry out hard drive recovery and resolve this behavior:
A) Format the Mac OS X hard disk and install both the OS from scratch.
B) Reboot your system using Disk Utility and then remove the Windows partition.
C) Restore data clean backup.
In case you go for hard drive formatting and do not have a clean backup, File recovery Mac software becomes need of hour.
Mac File recovery programs are incorporated with highly-advanced scanning mechanisms to thoroughly scan entire hard drive and salvage all lost data from it. These programs are capable of handling all data loss situations.
