Partitions won't be found at setup and random freezes

[DaDDy_Devil]

Hello,

 

first - yes this is my first thread and I searched the forum for some solutions for my problem, but I didn't find any.

 

Secondly, some details:

 

Iam using Kalyway 10.5.1 on the following system:

 

CPU: Q6600 at 2,4GHZ

Board: MSI P6N SLI V2

Graphic card: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

My two hard disks are SATA

 

And here is my problem:

At first, the DVD begins to boot but randomly in the setup the display gets darker and a popup shows up which says: Please restart your computer in several languages.

 

It randomly happens, sometimes at the very beginning when the setup is loading, sometimes when I go in the disk utility or something like that.

 

But sometimes this error doesn't occure, so here is my actual problem

 

As said, I have two SATA hard disks. One is my system disk with Windows XP and several other partitions, and the other is a 1TB hard disk with just one partition, 700GB are still unpartitioned.

 

When I go into the disk utility it scans my disks and finds my first disk, everything is fine and it shows me my partitions. But my second disk on which I want to install MacOS seems to be empty in this tool, it doesn't show my partition. I just can format the whole disk. I tried to make a FAT32 partition in Windows but this one isn't found either.

I don't find any tool to make a HFS+ partition in Windows or with a Live CD.

 

I hope someone of you knows anything to help me, I really don't want to format my second disk since I don't have any space to save 300GB

 

Oh and just one question... I installed Ubuntu and have this neat bootloader GRUB now, I know there are a lot of threads about this, but I just want to know... Do I have to do anything else beside make the MacOS partition MBR and not GUID?

 

And sorry for my bad English

 

Thanks to everyone who tries to help me, any help is welcome!

[DaDDy_Devil]

Anybody?