artisanicview Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 I have an internal 120 GB HDD on my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop and I try to install OSX on this HDD as secondary OS. I already have Windows XP installed on the first partition and I dont want to looseit. My partition are structured in this order: 1. FAT32 - 10 GB primary partition active - WindowsXP installed here 2. FAT32 - 22 GB primary partition - here I want to install OSX 3. NTFS - 88GB extended logical partition -where I have some stufs. I tryed to convert the second partition from FAT32 to HFS+ journaled using XxX_10.5.6 install Dvd but with no luck. I also intended the same using an 10.4.7 install dvd but Im getting the following error message: Cant read partion map. With Gparted, I can create only HFS 2GB partitions. I dont know what else I can do. Please help. Any help is wellcomed. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166079-i-cant-create-hfs-partition-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 I have an internal 120 GB HDD on my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop and I try to install OSX on this HDD as secondary OS. I already have Windows XP installed on the first partition and I dont want to looseit. My partition are structured in this order: 1. FAT32 - 10 GB primary partition active - WindowsXP installed here 2. FAT32 - 22 GB primary partition - here I want to install OSX 3. NTFS - 88GB extended logical partition -where I have some stufs. I tryed to convert the second partition from FAT32 to HFS+ journaled using XxX_10.5.6 install Dvd but with no luck. I also intended the same using an 10.4.7 install dvd but Im getting the following error message: Cant read partion map. With Gparted, I can create only HFS 2GB partitions. I dont know what else I can do. Please help. Any help is wellcomed. Thanks. Under Disk Utility try formatting it as MS-DOS (FAT) first and then reformat it as HFS+..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166079-i-cant-create-hfs-partition-please-help/#findComment-1153984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisanicview Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Unfortunately dont want to work even in this way. I formater ms-dos fat and after that when I try to reformat to hfs+ im getting the same error described above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166079-i-cant-create-hfs-partition-please-help/#findComment-1156021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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