royler_g Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 (System: P4 3,06 GHz 1GB RAM) I'm attempting to install OSX86 10.4.3 from DVD. I used to run XP only (1 partition). Since I want a dual-boot system, I resized my XP-partition (NTFS) using PartitionMagic and made it 12 GB smaller. Then I created a second partition of 12 GB on which to install OSX86. This is my problem: When I'm in the Install program->Disk Utilities (to format my 2:nd partition to Mac-format), I can only see my first (XP-NTFS) partition. Partition 2 doesn't show. Any ideas why? You're not supposed to need 2 harddisks for dual-boot according to what I've read. I tried having partition 2 "without filesystem", as FAT32 and as NTFS. Either way, it won't show. Do I have to convert my XP-NTFS partition to FAT32 to see the second partition? My 2:nd partition is marked as Active (boot partition). Please help! (I've tried searching for this but I didn't find an answer). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10580-partition-invisible-in-osxinstall/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 This is because you need to prep the 12GB partition as type = AF, so OS X can see it, and format it as HFS+... There are many methods to do this, but the easiest is probably to do it in XP, as described in this wiki page. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10580-partition-invisible-in-osxinstall/#findComment-66638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaiOSX Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 The partition must be blank or Fat32 formated to be editable in disk util. I had the same problem last week. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10580-partition-invisible-in-osxinstall/#findComment-66643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikola Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 And I am having the same problem, I formated it to FAR 32 but the disk utility can't see the partition table. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10580-partition-invisible-in-osxinstall/#findComment-68277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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