Saphiresurf Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Well ive been trying to get a completely (or as complete as it would get) working installation on my Dell Inspiron 1545. But when i formatted the drive it stopped in the middle and left my drive unmounted(or something like that. So then i tried first aid and everything, but then the hard drive couldnt be recognized by the mac installation any more. So i booted up a windows 7 installation disk and it said the hard drive was unallocated space (which it wasnt because it was still formated to Mac OS X (journaled) or whatever it was called), So i tried having it make a new partition on the hard drive from the mac partition that it read as unallocated space, but it gave me an error after a while. So if anyone could help me i woud be truly grateful. Best Regards, Saphiresurf P.S. I already tried Gparted and it couldnt find the hard drive as well P.S.S. Im using hazards distro (snow leopard) (not server) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 anyone know how to fix this? Ideneb can see the hard drive but it wont let me use first aid. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1423236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 It ends up that my hard drive might be faulty. There are reports of Maxtor drives (which im pretty sure i have) that stop working after installing Mac OS X or Linux on them. This sounds like a really bad excuse for a drive being faulty but thats what seems to be the case. Thanks for all your help though! Best Regards, Saphiresurf nevermind my hard drive is a Toshiba Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1423280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMoshi Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Did you solve it yet? My hard drive isn't being recognized also. I've fixed it couple days ago, but I broke my beautifully set Snow Leopard. Now I can't remember what I did Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1424298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 no i havnt solved it yet . But i am trying this paritition software its not Gparted (i forgot what it was) but if it works ill post the results and how to do it. Or better yet you remember how to! Anyways i hope one of us can get it working! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1424985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 the softwares parted magic (its a live cd running a linux kernel). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1425379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 *bump* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 please help i know how to make my laptop a hackintosh im just stuck figuring out how to fix my hard drive. Im trying a lot of partition and etc. software but they wont work. P.S. I cant afford a new hard drive right now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 Anyone? (Sorry if im being impatient i just want to have my laptop back (yes i know you must always be prepared when making a kackintosh. luckily i have an older laptop but its not the same)) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 *bump* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 *bump* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Could someone help me? sorry for my impatience i just need my laptop back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saphiresurf Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 also i think it had something to do with the drive being unmounted and not mounting it back. Now the mac installation disc (i figured out how to make it detect the drive) shows the hard drive but no partitions. When i try to format it or zero out the disc (with the mac installation) it gets stuck at creating the partition map. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil43 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Reading down through the posts, it seems that your hard disk in your laptop is behaving badly. If this were my problem, I would pull the hard disk out of the machine and put it into a USB external drive adapter. I would then attempt to mount the drive in an Hackintosh. If it mounted, I use disk utility and repartition the drive (GUID with MAC OS Extended (journaled) format) to a single partition and see if the format completes. If that did not work, I would mount the USB drive on an XP machine and using the disk maintenance utility, I would attempt to delete and partitions found until the drive was completely un-allocated. Then back to the Hackintosh and disk utility to partition and format (GUID with MAC OS Extended (journaled) format). And if the drive continues to behave badly, chuck it. Drives are cheap. neil. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdnz01 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Use a bootcd like ultimate bootcd, and whipe out the entire drive. If that doesn't work, the problem is likely related to your hardware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212179-hard-drive-problem/#findComment-1426856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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