Lightshield Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I'm sorry to be one of those n00bs who joins up just to seek help... but I'm desperate here fellas! I have a Compaq F767NR. I burned a Kalyway image and went through the motions of making partitions in Vista Premium and booting into the installer. About 6 or 7 times I got all the way into the Leopard installer but it couldn't find the HD partition I had made, so I would exit out and boot back into Vista to try something different. The last time I made a 20gig partition, named it "LEOPARD" and formatted it to FAT32, because i'd read somewhere it would recognize a FAT32 format. So I made one and set it as active, and rebooted. Well, I got back into installer and it still didn't see it, so I exited out to reboot again. This time it frozen on the "white words" setup before you get into the Leopard installer (sorry for the layman's terms) saying that it couldn't write to the Log File because the source was read only. So I tried to use the Darwin bootloader on the disk to get back to Vista like I had 6 times before, except now it only shows the 20gig empty partition and doesn't show me the others. So... I'm begging and hoping, is there any way I can make the computer recognize the other partitions? Would burning a Vista boot disk help me at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eye1 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Suggest you post your system info first, so people know what you have. Why don't you make it easy on yourself and just install the whole drive with osx. You are working on the more complex install. Also read previous topics to answer your questions. Chances are, many others have "Been there, Done That" Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartNijland Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 As far I as now, when you can't change a partition with the Disk Utility on the boot disk. You can however change the entire disk, so I think you formatted your whole disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightshield Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Well as it is, I'm still. The Kalyway disk will no longer boot me into an installer, and the bootloader can't see either of my other partitions to boot into Windows. I have 3 partitions on a 220gb drive... Vista, Recovery, and a 20gb FAT32 named Leopard. I don't think I formatted my entire drive, because I did the partitioning in Vista with Disk Management. Shrank the C drive, clicked the unallocated space and formatted it into Fat32. Clicked to make that partition Active, then rebooted. Then my problem. Random system info... AMD 64 dual core processor 2ghz 2gb Ram nVIDIA nForce 610M Phoenix BIOS If I try to boot up without the DVD in the drive, it just stops and says something like "Please remove disk" I'm completely lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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