bigjohnjr Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I split the hard drive into 2 partitions, xp on the first and nothing on the second. The second partition is blank, 15 gig. I wanted to install osx on the second. When I boot up the cd I get the installer with no drives to select. When I select the hard drive I get the nice graphic window. Osx wants to partiton the drive and I do not want to do that, I just want to format the second partition. What am I doing wrong? I have osx running fine on my desktop machine but that machine has 2 hard drives in it. Please help me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stngray Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...42&hl=diskpart# post 14 You can skip the partition magic part, just do the diskpart steps. This will allow osx to see the partition, which you can then format using diskutility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-76963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohnjr Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 I do not want to screw up my xp install. I tried the diskpart command and it found no partitions. Any Ideas?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-76988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stngray Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I do not want to screw up my xp install. I tried the diskpart command and it found no partitions. Any Ideas?? If you don't want to screw up your xp install, then I wouldn't even attempt to install OSX on the same hard drive, the odds are pretty good you will mess it up( I have had to reinstall xp twice on my 9300 lappy). Only suggestions I have on the partition side, other than to totally wipe the hard drive and partition it with disk utility, is to try acronis disk director which can partition in AF, but I have never personally used it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-77001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohnjr Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 I thought there was a way of doing it without screwing up the windows partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-77035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stngray Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 You can do the diskpart method without screwing up your XP install. When you partitioned your drive, did you leave the second partition (its not actually a partition at this point) as unallocated space? It needs to be to have diskpart mark it as af. What partitioning software are you using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-77038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohnjr Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Ok I used partition magic. The drive had 2 partitions on it. 98 megs for the first (windows xp) and the second was unused ( that is for the dvd player function built in the laptop) I resized the 98 to 80 ( just to try ) and left the other new one empty. I did not format it. I tried the diskpart and selected 0, then I tried to selecet a partition and it said I had no partitions. I then formated the new partition and it still did not seem to work. Oh by the way what is "af" Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-77053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stngray Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 af is the hexcode for HFS+ You do not want to create a new partition with partition magic. You need to delete or resize a current partition to make "unallocated space". You then go into diskpart, type "select disk 0" hit enter, then type "create partition primary id=af" This tags the unallocated space as HFS+ which allows the diskutility on the osx install dvd to see it. You then use the erase in diskutility to format the partition. If you get the error "diskpart was unable to create the specified partition" you do not have any unallocated space. I would guess your problem is that you are creating unformatted partitions with partion magic, and not unallocated space. Also I "think" that the unpartitioned space has to be at the end of the drive, not the middle or beginning. HTH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-77058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 you could use VMWare like I did. I got to keep my XP partition that way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12220-laptop-install-help/#findComment-77115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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