Fix: Boot Camp Assistant stuck on Partitioning

Yesterday, when I was removing Windows partition through Boot Camp Assistant, it got stuck on partitioning:

Status: Partitioning Disk

I’m lucky to fix it manually. There are my steps:

1 Command+Q to quit the Boot Camp Assistant.

2 Open Disk Utility, select the harddisk, go to tab Partition.

3 I see there is some free space after my osx partition. Simply, I extend my osx partition and click Apply.

4 An error message is given to me. Due to some error within my osx partition, this operation cannot be done.

5 Reboot computer with Option key down, and select Recovery.

6 Use Disk Utility to repair the osx partition.

7 Do not try to extend partition here. You cannot make it successfully.

8 Reboot to osx normally.

9 Open Disk Utility again to extend osx partition. It can be done now.

10 Start Boot Camp Assistant if you need to re-install another Windows instance.

 

That’s my story.

Environment:

OSX 10.8

Windows to remove: Win7 with single partition, created by Boot Camp Assistant of OSX 10.8.

 

PS, Windows 8 works great. Except there is a bug on current version of Boot Camp. You can only back to OSX by holding Option button down while powering up, not able to do that with the menu command within Boot Camp.

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