AeroWV Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Hi people, I'm on a HP Mini 2140 (no cd drive) so I'm using ddmac under windows xp to dump the iATKOS v7 iso to my 4GB usb flash drive. It manages to dump it, I've checked and the partition ID is set to AF, and WHEN I BOOT THE INSTALLER (haven't been able to install yet) I get this error: H00000000 HFS+ Partition Error Again, this happens when TRYING TO BOOT THE INSTALLER FROM THE USB FLASH DRIVE, I haven't installed yet. On ddmac I selected everything but the boot.ini option which i don't think will be needed. I heard that the partition need to be active, i was using Paragon Partition Manager and it tells me the usb has no format (I think it doesn't support HFS+) so it doesn't allow me to mark it as active. It's weird because I had been able to create a usb bootable iatkos installer before, and now I don't know why it won't boot. I don't know what else to do.. Any help ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202805-problem-booting-iatkosv7-installer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroWV Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 Hey no i get a different error, now it says Non system disk error or disk error I think this is even worse, the last one at least was talking about HFS partitions... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202805-problem-booting-iatkosv7-installer/#findComment-1362487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocotutch Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Don't format the USB Drive as HFS+, keep it as the default Universal ISO/Bootable DVD Format (ISO ..somenumbers). As an alternative you can always Install MacDrive and VirtualCloneDrive and mount the Image and copy all files manually including the Windows Files (right click and choose Show Windows/Mac Files once MacDrive is installed and copy BOTH lots to the same drive) and then boot from it. Make sure your BIOS is configured for AHCI. cocotutch Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202805-problem-booting-iatkosv7-installer/#findComment-1362645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroWV Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 Don't format the USB Drive as HFS+, keep it as the default Universal ISO/Bootable DVD Format (ISO ..somenumbers). As an alternative you can always Install MacDrive and VirtualCloneDrive and mount the Image and copy all files manually including the Windows Files (right click and choose Show Windows/Mac Files once MacDrive is installed and copy BOTH lots to the same drive) and then boot from it. Make sure your BIOS is configured for AHCI. cocotutch Thanks for the answer man. I don't know how but I tried a lot of times, formatting the usb to NTFS then using the ddmac and, somohow, after attempt number n it just booted.. weird because it was the same thing I tried all day.. Btw what's the Universal ISO/Bootable DVD format? I never heard of that. And i'll keep in mind the MacDrive and VirtualCloneDrive alternative, just in case something happens to my usb.. and a quick question.. just copying all files from the mounted iso also copies the boot sector and all the darwin data and that stuff? and what's AHCI? Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202805-problem-booting-iatkosv7-installer/#findComment-1362726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocotutch Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Thanks for the answer man. I don't know how but I tried a lot of times, formatting the usb to NTFS then using the ddmac and, somohow, after attempt number n it just booted.. weird because it was the same thing I tried all day.. Btw what's the Universal ISO/Bootable DVD format? I never heard of that. And i'll keep in mind the MacDrive and VirtualCloneDrive alternative, just in case something happens to my usb.. and a quick question.. just copying all files from the mounted iso also copies the boot sector and all the darwin data and that stuff? and what's AHCI? Thanks in advance AHCI is the setting that Mac OS X uses to Boot/Install. You know when you burn a DVD/CD and it has the UDF Format? So it reads on any system? That's the one, and if You format it to that you'll probably increase your chances of it booting. Yeah, because you are using Windows, all the Files will show up. Make sure you have MacDrive as I said, and right click the Mounted ISO/DVD and click Show Mac Files, copy ALL of them, then go back and right click on the Mounted CD/DVD/USB/ISO and click Show Windows Files and copy them also. Then go to boot from it. After you've copied the files, don't look inside the USB, because it will only show the Windows Files or Mac Files. It can freak you out sometimes. Just leave it in and boot from it at startup. cocotutch Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202805-problem-booting-iatkosv7-installer/#findComment-1362896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroWV Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 AHCI is the setting that Mac OS X uses to Boot/Install. You know when you burn a DVD/CD and it has the UDF Format? So it reads on any system? That's the one, and if You format it to that you'll probably increase your chances of it booting. Yeah, because you are using Windows, all the Files will show up. Make sure you have MacDrive as I said, and right click the Mounted ISO/DVD and click Show Mac Files, copy ALL of them, then go back and right click on the Mounted CD/DVD/USB/ISO and click Show Windows Files and copy them also. Then go to boot from it. After you've copied the files, don't look inside the USB, because it will only show the Windows Files or Mac Files. It can freak you out sometimes. Just leave it in and boot from it at startup. cocotutch Now, after I select all the stuff in the customize section, when it starts installig it gets stuck at about 10 or 15 % of the bar then it says "Failed to install, The installer couldn't verify the contents of 10.5.7 Intel" or something like that.. I think the usb is corrupted... gonna try the macdrive method and see what happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202805-problem-booting-iatkosv7-installer/#findComment-1363406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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