l2ounak Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Hello all, Ive tried installing Mac OSx on my HP Pavilion dv6607nr laptop and iPC 10.5.6 was the only distro that seemed to have recognized my internal hard drive! I tried it with iATKOS, iDeneb, Kalyway and Leo4all. Ok, so now, when I try to format or partition or erase my detected hard drive, it doesnt let me! It gives and error. Sometimes it says Input/Output error and sometimes it says disk cant be unmounted. I tried creating a partition in windows 7 (NTFS, FAT32) and I also used Partition Magic to create (HFS+) but still it had the same problem, it couldnt be formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journalled) Am I doing anything? Is there something I need to know? Please, look into this! I really want this to work Thanks for your time and effort, I really appereciate it! Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208614-hard-drive-cannot-be-formattedpartitionederased/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
over9000 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I have a similar laptop (dv6408nr) that you have. Is it AMD based? Have you tried the option of Extended without the (Journalized)? I had the same kind of problem with my old computer and this, and when I selected the other option, it solved the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208614-hard-drive-cannot-be-formattedpartitionederased/#findComment-1393323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
l2ounak Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 I have a similar laptop (dv6408nr) that you have.Is it AMD based? Have you tried the option of Extended without the (Journalized)? I had the same kind of problem with my old computer and this, and when I selected the other option, it solved the problem. yes its amd based, and would the format without journalized work? i mean it woudlnt create problems with the installation? i really wanna do this, because iPC is the only one that detected my drive and i was kinda sad that its giving methis problem! Im gona try it without the journalized option! Thanks to you! hopefuly it works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208614-hard-drive-cannot-be-formattedpartitionederased/#findComment-1393335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
over9000 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I need to get me that release then! I've been struggling with iAtkos for 4 days now... Let me know if it works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208614-hard-drive-cannot-be-formattedpartitionederased/#findComment-1393346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
l2ounak Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 I need to get me that release then! I've been struggling with iAtkos for 4 days now...Let me know if it works hey, ive tried it!! doesnt seem to work infact i tried doing it to all the formats (Journalled and Non Journalled), It just gives me Input/Output error Dont know whats wrong!! I really want this to work!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208614-hard-drive-cannot-be-formattedpartitionederased/#findComment-1393372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaspoli Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Partition Magic cannot format HFS, and is an old tool too. Try to work with the newest Paragon Partition Manager or Acronis Disk tool. Or Gparted Boot CD. Maybe the disk is corrupt. Hello all, Ive tried installing Mac OSx on my HP Pavilion dv6607nr laptop and iPC 10.5.6 was the only distro that seemed to have recognized my internal hard drive! I tried it with iATKOS, iDeneb, Kalyway and Leo4all. Ok, so now, when I try to format or partition or erase my detected hard drive, it doesnt let me! It gives and error. Sometimes it says Input/Output error and sometimes it says disk cant be unmounted. I tried creating a partition in windows 7 (NTFS, FAT32) and I also used Partition Magic to create (HFS+) but still it had the same problem, it couldnt be formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journalled) Am I doing anything? Is there something I need to know? Please, look into this! I really want this to work Thanks for your time and effort, I really appereciate it! Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208614-hard-drive-cannot-be-formattedpartitionederased/#findComment-1393504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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