Gary Coleman Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I formatted and partitioned the hard drive to FAT32 using Partition Magic. I am getting an "Input and Output Error" when trying to erase and format the drive to Mac OS Extended (journaled) in Darwin under Disk Utility. What am I doing wrong????? Is my hard drive busted or did I format the wrong way? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewno Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Try using Disk Utility to partition your driver in 2, see what it says. Then, re-erase it back to one partition... Partition Magic tends to "misbehave" on my HD sometimes... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Coleman Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 Try using Disk Utility to partition your driver in 2, see what it says. Then, re-erase it back to one partition... Partition Magic tends to "misbehave" on my HD sometimes... I tried that too. I still get the Input Output error. It sees my drive fine. Just whenever it tries to change my drive, I get that damn error. When I used the -v command to see everthing during the boot up of the install, I already see 5 I/O error messages. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Coleman Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 ok, i did some research and I may to need to convert the drive to "af" first. How do I do that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subramanyam Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 First create some free space... run diskpart list disk select disk *(where * is ur disk no...) eg. select disk 0 list parititon create partition primary id=af select partition * active Tat shud do... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 LINUX!!!!!!!! use reiser or ext3 when your installing osx it will see those partiton types and then u can install the MacOS file system Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Coleman Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 LINUX!!!!!!!! use reiser or ext3 when your installing osx it will see those partiton types and then u can install the MacOS file system i'm downloading Ubuntu Linux right now, hopefully it will work. setting the primary id=af still does not work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Coleman Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 nope, nothing works, i think the hard drive is busted Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 have you tried removing all partitions on the drive before starting the mac os install? I left a portion of my drive unpartitioned...started the install and partitioned it via disk utility....btw how is your hard drive connected PATA, SATA, USB? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Coleman Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 yep it was the hard drive. I stuck in my old hard drive and it formatted fine. i can't believe that stinkin hard drive gave me so much trouble Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macssam Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 best is to intall on a second HD I never used partition magic nor arconics and did not have to set any boot priorities in dos mode mac utilities does everything install even works with DVD-RW under costomize don't install everything at once patches you realy need first ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25482-whats-the-proper-way-to-format-the-hard-drive-for-a-native-install/#findComment-172636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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