Suzuka Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I had vista installed on my hackintosh, but something went wrong and it refused to boot, and I want to reinstall, and i always get an error saying "No disks match critera" (or something like that) I googled around and found a few solutions like disableing S.M.A.R.T., setting HD as primary device and none of those worked. The disk is formetted as a GUID partition, but I was able to install it before under similar circumstances. Does anyone have a solution? EDIT: for some reason my OS X partition got deleted >_> so now Im back all the way to where I was in teh begginng, but now, fallowing the exact same steps as I did the first time, now Windows Vista (x64) says it cant install on GPT partitions. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181974-cant-reinstall-vista-on-a-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Download and burning cd image Gpart to disc... restart PC and run off CD.. in gpart blow partions and HD..... then crate a NTFS drive... http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php u may have to set master table to DOS instead of Unix table settings.... I can;t remember what they are now notice the bottome left were it says DiskLableType MS Dos... u have to make sure your HDD reads that in order to make a NTFS driver or partion I bet with a little fiddling around with Gart you;ll get it .. once u do get it and have a NTFS Drive made reinstall windows then Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181974-cant-reinstall-vista-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-1240082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 Download and burning cd image Gpart to disc... restart PC and run off CD.. in gpart blow partions and HD..... then crate a NTFS drive... EDIT: I get what your saying, but I have to have it in GPT, or else Leopard refuses to install :/ Unless theres a way in Gparted to change it without destroying the partitions... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181974-cant-reinstall-vista-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-1241554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Since you are starting fresh. You need to wipe out the whole HD. Use gparted to remove all partition. Start installing Vista first, make two partition one NTFS and one FAT32. After that install OSX and use Disk Utility to make GPT partition. Thats how i got it done. HTH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181974-cant-reinstall-vista-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-1241646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 IMHO, the simplest way to get Windows and MacOS to coexist on a single hard disk is to use a pure MBR configuration. GNU Parted or its ilk should be able to set this up, as MadDoggyca suggests. OTOH, some people suggest that Mac OS X is happier on a GPT disk. Personally, I've not had problems with running OSx86 on an MBR disk, but this might depend on the installation method, boot loader, etc. The problem is that Windows (even Windows 7) just won't boot from a GPT disk, at least not as far as I know. (I've tried, but it seems pretty recalcitrant.) IMHO, this is an inexcusable state of affairs at this point in time, but that's Microsoft for you. What you had before was almost certainly a hybrid MBR/GPT configuration. A normal GPT disk has a "protective MBR," which is a legal MBR that exists solely to keep GPT-unaware utilities from trying to muck with the disk; the GPT disk's MBR contains a single partition of type 0xEE (EFI GPT), which older OSes recognize only as an unknown partition type. In a hybrid configuration, that protective partition is shrunk and entries for up to three partitions are added, providing an alternative means of accessing existing GPT partitions. This is effective at enabling Windows (or other older OSes) to boot off of a GPT disk. The trouble is that this configuration is flaky and trouble-prone; if the MBR and GPT data structures get out of sync, you can end up with trashed partitions, an inability to boot, etc. It's conceivable that this happened to you and caused your original problems, or that in your efforts to fix those problems, you used a utility that caused further damage because of the hybrid configuration. This is why I suggest sticking with a pure-MBR configuration. That said, hybrid configurations are undeniably useful in some situations, such as if you want to boot enough GPT-aware OSes that they won't all fit on a pure-MBR disk, or if some OS really does work better on GPT than on MBR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181974-cant-reinstall-vista-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-1247056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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