caconba Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Hi. I having a hard time on installing mac on a external harddrive or on my internal harddrive. I'm doin it on a laptop Dell Inspiron 5100 and so far the installation prosses goes the right way until on the third step installation. I does not detect a harddrive. And a reminder that im using the Marklar-Tiger.iso already patched. So, the only problem is detecting the harddrive. Please i need help and I can wait to play with it. Thanks for the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1832-can-not-install-mac-on-a-external-usb-harddrive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgmccollum Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 This will wipe your whole hard drive. If you are trying to dual boot, DO NOT DO THIS. At the first screen, choose Disk Utility from one of the menus (cant remember which). Click your disk on the left (the USB drive might display too) Click the erase tab Name the drive Choose HFS+ Journaled Begin Erasing the disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1832-can-not-install-mac-on-a-external-usb-harddrive/#findComment-11847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caconba Posted September 3, 2005 Author Share Posted September 3, 2005 This will wipe your whole hard drive. If you are trying to dual boot, DO NOT DO THIS. At the first screen, choose Disk Utility from one of the menus (cant remember which). Click your disk on the left (the USB drive might display too) Click the erase tab Name the drive Choose HFS+ Journaled Begin Erasing the disk <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the info. It did work, but I can not boot in to mac. I only boot in to winxp. I'm trying to have a dual boot but i cant. Since I alrady have winxp on the primary partition and mac on the external usb harddrive. What else should I do to have both dual boot. Thank for the info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1832-can-not-install-mac-on-a-external-usb-harddrive/#findComment-11917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstrippie Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Thanks for the info. It did work, but I can not boot in to mac. I only boot in to winxp. I'm trying to have a dual boot but i cant. Since I alrady have winxp on the primary partition and mac on the external usb harddrive. What else should I do to have both dual boot. Thank for the info. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I also boot to a USB drive. In my case it didn't work properly until I installed the darwin chain booter into the windows boot.ini. Additionally, on boot it will sometimes hang at the dreaded "waiting for root device." I have found, however, that simply unplugging the USB drive and plugging it back in will reload the USB mass storage drivers and the boot will complete. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1832-can-not-install-mac-on-a-external-usb-harddrive/#findComment-12014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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