CheetinCheetah Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Hello, I just want to clarify a few things. But first off, here's what I did: I have a USB hard disk with 2 partitions in it. A 33GB one plus a 7GB one. I'm attempting to I did Deadmoo's dd.exe, pointing it to the correct .IMG file, and also, specifying the correct hard drive, along with the switch that (i think) has the block size to 512 (??). DD did it's thing, my USB HDD clicking away for 2 hours and it was a success for that part When I attempted to boot from the USB hard disk, the BIOS gave me a (i think) HFS+ Partition Error message and stops there. So my questions are: Will OS X load off a partition on a USB hard disk? Or/and am I doing the correct things... P.S.: Tried on 2 computers; all with the same problem (by the way, has this been discussed before? Search function sucks, gave me irrelevant results) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquadeluxe Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 the partition has to be a primary partition not logical when you made the partition on windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheetinCheetah Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 Well, I got it to work, thereby lifting the "n00b" title off of my chest I'm going to make my findings public now so that everyone with the same problem can refer back to it. I used my commercial partition editor to make sure my OSX partition is type "AF" and that it is primary (the former is what caused the HFS+ error prompt). Then I proceeded with the DD'ing Have a nice day Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-112103 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamilboy Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Well, I got it to work, thereby lifting the "n00b" title off of my chest I'm going to make my findings public now so that everyone with the same problem can refer back to it. I used my commercial partition editor to make sure my OSX partition is type "AF" and that it is primary (the former is what caused the HFS+ error prompt). Then I proceeded with the DD'ing Have a nice day "Commercial partition editor - which program is that? I had the same problem.. then I formated the partition and made it primary with Partition Magic... Now how do I make it type AF? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-115240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheetinCheetah Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 I used Acronis Disk Director Suite. It comes with "Partition Editor"; that can be used to change the partition type to "AF". (Correction: I created and made a partition as Primary. I then did the DD to the NTFS hard drive before converting it to "AF") Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-115441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamilboy Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 I used Acronis Disk Director Suite. It comes with "Partition Editor"; that can be used to change the partition type to "AF". (Correction: I created and made a partition as Primary. I then did the DD to the NTFS hard drive before converting it to "AF") Okay thx , I'll try that when I come home, hope that it will work.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-115623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamilboy Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Hi I have installed Acronis Disk Director... Can u tell me how to change to AF Edit: Never mind... I found out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-116913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jota Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 Do you guys mean 0AFh Shag OS Swap? That sounds kinda wrong... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-117886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheetinCheetah Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 Yep. "0AFh" (ShagOS Swap) is correct. Anything other than that gives the said HFS+ partition error. Forgot to mention that. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15039-n00b-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-118015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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