maati1980 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 During installation i cant create any partitions on my HDD. It says "input/output error". I was looking in the net and i found that it is important to have S.M.A.R.T status "verified". But for my Pavilion 9720US i have permanent S.M.A.R.T enabled in BIOS and the status is "not verified". HDD FUJITSU MHY2160BH is working for 100%. I dont want to install system on external HDD. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandualbootinman Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 During installation i cant create any partitions on my HDD. It says "input/output error".I was looking in the net and i found that it is important to have S.M.A.R.T status "verified". But for my Pavilion 9720US i have permanent S.M.A.R.T enabled in BIOS and the status is "not verified". HDD FUJITSU MHY2160BH is working for 100%. I dont want to install system on external HDD. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance. Hi i no the way i partition is first using PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 and resize the main partition make sure the grey unallocated space has atleast 10gb after you've resized your main partition, once done go to run type cmd then type diskutility, select disk 0, list partitions, select partition 1, create partition primary id=af, select disk 0, list partitions, select partition 2, active, exit This step is very easy and fast to do this will create the partition too start off for the leopard installation and as normal once your in leopard you go to disk utility and format the partition we just created to mac os x journalled hope this helped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maati1980 Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 Ok. I've realocated space using PartitionMagic it looks like Third partition is prepared for leo4all. And still i cant format it under Mac Os installer same error. Is this the problem with S.M.A.R.T?? S.M.A.R.T Status: Not Supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inimicus Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 S.M.A.R.T isn't the issue, I don't think. I've installed on unsupported S.M.A.R.T drives before. You may want to try formatting the destination partition(s) to FAT32. This is all I've ever done and it's worked fine... never an I/O error. As dandualbootinman says, format to HFS+ once you've boot to the install disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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