seano Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Ok, First off, 10.4.5 DVD via upgrade hosed my system, so backup up my stuff to a USB drive, and proceeded to do a fresh install.... I reinstalled 10.4.4 and noticed the kernel booting in dev mode.... hmmmm... odd, the 10.4.4 install DVD i have never did that before. So figured the boot loader from the 10.4.5 install was still present on the HDD. Right, I thought... Ill zero out the HDD when I format it in Disk Utils.... all went well with the install....erm... except when I reboot the system, the hangs at a blank screen and a blinking cursor! Arrrggggh.... rebooted from DVD... checked startup disk and set to 10.4.4 folder on HDD... reboot... same thing... I am wondering if zeroing out the HDD had an affect? Is there a step I missed when reinstalling? System: P4 630 915GUX mobo (TPM model - oh well) Onboard Sound and vid 250GB SATA Drive 3Com Network card (On board ethernet wont work) many thanks for any help! Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12541-zeroing-the-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
-TiLT- Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I had the same problems, but within a VMware. I solved that by installing OSX onto a VMware virtual disk (not a whole partition), then giving the machine access to the whole hard drive and the virtual drive, and then I cloned the virtual partition over the real partition via NortonGhost. -TiLT- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12541-zeroing-the-hdd/#findComment-79514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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