bibi1 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Hi this is my first time installing OSX. i know my problem seems to occur alot here, but going over the soultions does not solve mine... i tried ideneb 10.5.5, ideneb 10.5.6 and iATKOS v7 10.5.7. in all of them the "select destination" box is empty, so i am not sure this is a distro problem... i have one SATA HD with windows 7 installed on for which i will need a dual boot. i've updated the w7 boot with easybcd with 2 entries (1 for w7 and 1 for osx) i used gparted to create a 50gb partition (last one) formatted it to hfs+ and made it active. when i start the installer the "select destination box" is empty. when i open the disk utility, i can see the my disk and 3 partitions (one of them is my 50gb partition). i tried to select it , erase it with the osx extended journaled selected. but nothing helps. i can't even mount it (got an error) btw, all the buttons in the firstaid tab are disabled.. the only diff between distro is that with iATKOS v7 i can see the dvd icon in the "destination box" but it is readonly (of course). selecing the disk and going to the partitions tab and clicking on each partition seems to give a wrong info on partitions types on the right pane. is there a chance that i am missing a driver? my configuration: Mobo: intel dg45id CPU: intel e8500 Video: nvidia 8500 HD: SATA 1 TB DVD: SATA bios is set to AHCI (before that i had the waiting for root device..ham maybe even before setting this partition to active) 10x in advance... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172133-help-cant-select-destination-iatkos-v7-1057/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibi1 Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 not even a single answer? please i don't know what to do.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172133-help-cant-select-destination-iatkos-v7-1057/#findComment-1185434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaldMeister Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 MBR or GUID? If the disk is empty, so no usefull data, just erase the whole disk, and reformat is with disk utility. You could also delete the 50gb partition, and create a unformated one. Also format this one with disk utility. If no partition can be selected, probably the mbr has been corrupted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172133-help-cant-select-destination-iatkos-v7-1057/#findComment-1185713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibi1 Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 MBR or GUID? If the disk is empty, so no usefull data, just erase the whole disk, and reformat is with disk utility. You could also delete the 50gb partition, and create a unformated one. Also format this one with disk utility. If no partition can be selected, probably the mbr has been corrupted. i guess this is an MBR, as i am using it for windows 7. i can't format all disk as i have data on (the w7) i think the mbr is not corrupted as i can still use it (writing these lines from the w7 partition) as i wrote before, i tried erase the 50gb partition using the disk utility and format it with mac extended journaled. the only thing i hann't tried is to delete the partition and recreate it with gparted but format it only in the install not in gpartedto hfs+. i have a hunch i will get the same results Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172133-help-cant-select-destination-iatkos-v7-1057/#findComment-1185864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaldMeister Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Corrupted doesn't mean you can't use it. Had the issue with Tiger, i ran xp and vista, but could not format a partition with disk utility in the setup. After whiping the whole hdd, ik created the partitions with disk utility, installed xp, vista and then osx, and it worked. Still worth a try If you don't have the chance to backup everything to another hdd, download hirens boot cd, use acronis to delete the partition, and format it to fat32. Then format the partition with disk utility. If it doesn't work, perhaps you'll need to use terminal, you will need a guru for that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172133-help-cant-select-destination-iatkos-v7-1057/#findComment-1185871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibi1 Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 Corrupted doesn't mean you can't use it.Had the issue with Tiger, i ran xp and vista, but could not format a partition with disk utility in the setup. After whiping the whole hdd, ik created the partitions with disk utility, installed xp, vista and then osx, and it worked. Still worth a try If you don't have the chance to backup everything to another hdd, download hirens boot cd, use acronis to delete the partition, and format it to fat32. Then format the partition with disk utility. If it doesn't work, perhaps you'll need to use terminal, you will need a guru for that well i've tried the previous suggestion and as expected, got the same result. i used gparted to delete the 50gb partition and created a new primary partition but unformatted. then i used the erase in the disk utility but no luck (even tried the zero-data option). i can't backup the disk as it is my only disk, so i need to stay with the data on it. is there any difference that the formatting application, will acronis behave more nice than gparted? just for the record: on your disk, did you create guid partitions or mbr? does windows xp/vista could be installed on guid? (i am not that familiar with guid, only mbr). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172133-help-cant-select-destination-iatkos-v7-1057/#findComment-1185916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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