Comments on: How to Resolve a “Partition Failed” Error in Mac OS X

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:24:18 +0000

Thanks a lot! this worked like a charm!

By: Stanley

Stanley — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:32:56 +0000

Hi,
i had the same error,
just try the suggestion but still same error msg still occured.
need help.. thanks

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:26:25 +0000

Hi, I tried this and now Mac OS X 10.8 won’t boot. The grey Apple loading screen now has a loading bar on it, and when it gets to the end, the Mac shuts down.

Help anyone?

By: tibinet

tibinet — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:00:46 +0000

Hey man, you saved 20GB from my 128GB SSD. Thanks a lot!

By: Aalaap Ghag

Aalaap Ghag — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:07:41 +0000

If you have rEFIt installed, the startup commands (Cmd+S) won’t work. But this is simpler to do in rEFIt: just hold Option for the menu to come up, then hit F2 and select ‘Boot into single user mode’. Then run the command mentioned above and voila!

By: Hassan

Hassan — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:25:04 +0000

Thank you very much !! it fixed my problem and i installed windows normally thanks a lot !!! very good fix !!

By: krishan

krishan — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:48:05 +0000

sweeeeeeeeeeeeet worked like a charm….

By: George

George — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:12:33 +0000

THANK YOU!

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:58:22 +0000

This fixed a problem I had trying to recreate a bootcamp partition. Thanks!

By: Gelio

Gelio — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:32:19 +0000

I had same problem. Type; sbin/fsck -fy. I removed the 1st (/)it worked for me.

By: James

James — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:30:56 +0000

I typed /sbin/fsck -fy exactly and it says it is not recognized. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

By: Elroy

Elroy — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:06:44 +0000

Thanks. I love it when what I read online actually works.

By: kewldude

kewldude — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:05:34 +0000

Excellent article!!
While removing windows 7 boot camp partition via BCA tool on OS X Mountain Lion, it complained “failed to remove”.

However after rebooting MacBook Air noticed that Boot Camp was gone but was not able to merge the partition using Disk Utility. It gave the same message as in this article. Followed the steps in this article and after rebooting everything works perfectly.

Happy to recover the unused 50GB of Win7 on my 128GB MacBook Air.

Thank you so much!!

By: Ash Nagar

Ash Nagar — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:17:21 +0000

oops! sorry for the double post didnt realize i had already posted…my bad…

By: Ash Nagar

Ash Nagar — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:16:27 +0000

for me the error msg is not this…instead –

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

so if its the same as the above then shall i do this process or what should i do…i have macbook pro with mountain lion 10.8.2

thx
ash