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Select Custom installation when prompted and select the BOOTCAMP partition.There may be a couple of reboots as part of the process. Select Start Installation and your Mac will do just that.Install your Windows installation media once Boot Camp Assistant has completed the partition.Windows will need at least 20Gb to work well. Adjust the slider to size your new Windows partition when prompted to by the Boot Camp Assistant.Select Enter to download and install everything you’ll need.Select Continue and enter your Apple ID if prompted.Select Continue within the Assistant and select ‘Download the Windows support software for this Mac’ if prompted.Navigate to Utilities and select Boot Camp Assistant.You will need a legit copy of Windows to install but the rest is all contained within OS X. If you want to dual boot Mac OS X with Windows, you can use the built-in Boot Camp to partition your drive ready for the install. Using Boot Camp to dual boot with Windows If that first fix doesn’t work this definitely should. This second step is also an error check but on a deeper level.

Run Disk Utility again and allow the process to complete.

Open a command prompt, type ‘/sbin/fsck-fy’ and hit Enter.

Turn it on again and hold down Command + S to access Single User Mode.

If the verification finds no errors or fixes them but you still see ‘Your disk could not be partitioned’, try the next fix.

Allow the disk to be checked for errors and select Repair Disk if the utility finds any.

Select your drive from the left and select Verify Disk.

Backup your Mac as appropriate in case anything bad happens. If it doesn’t fix it for you, try the second. The first step will address the error in many situations. Whatever the cause, the fix is fairly straightforward. It seems serious enough to prevent partitioning but not serious enough to affect normal operation. This leads me to believe that the message is caused by some kind of error in the file system. I have not seen it on newer Macs or recently unboxed ones. The only times I have seen ‘Your disk could not be partitioned’ errors have been on older Macs that have been in use for a while.