vlestat Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Hi there, I am having some troubles with OSX (though I will limit this discussion to the current problem at hand). I am getting the HFS+ partition error when booting unless I have the installer DVD in the drive. I installed 10.4.5 patched DVD on an old 40GB drive. I used the disk utility on the OSX DVD to erase and format my drive into a single giant partition. I reboot and get the HFS+ error. I have been reading many of the forums on this error and most of the topics seem to only address a dual boot scenario (the guides for that actually seem easier! . I have looked at the most common problems. Using PTedit32, the drive does have type AF, it is type 80 for boot. I saw a post once about sector 63 and something about 512 but it was rather nondescript. PTedit32 gives me the following information: Type: AF Boot: 80 Starting Cyl: 1023 Head: 254 Sector: 63 Ending Cyl: 1023 Head: 254 Sector: 63 Sectors before: 2048 Sectors: 78157824 Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is there something I'm missing? Please, everyday I use Windows a little piece of me dies inside. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20183-hfs-partition-error-on-single-partition-single-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
drib Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Is it an active partition? I had the same problem with my portable (just one partition with OS X), untill I changed the status to active with PartitionMagic. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20183-hfs-partition-error-on-single-partition-single-drive/#findComment-132944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlestat Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 Which version of Partition Magic are you using? That was one of the routes that I was going to take but when I get into the Version 8.0 DOS Partition Magic it gives me an unrecognized type of partition. Wait a minute, am I answering my own question here? Do I just need a newer version? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20183-hfs-partition-error-on-single-partition-single-drive/#findComment-132948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drib Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 No idea, I just had the problems some days ago and used Hiren's Boot CD v8 Did you try other Partitioning tools? //Even if it does give you an unrecognized file format; you should still be able to set it active or inactive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20183-hfs-partition-error-on-single-partition-single-drive/#findComment-132951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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