King George Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Hi to all, I'm installing 10.4.7 (JaS) on a notebook with following hardware. Intel T2300 dual core GeForce Go 7600 SATA 160 GB, ICH7M chipset Let me tell you my story... First I made a partition on my hard disk, using Acronis Disk Director. I made a 10 GB primary partition, formatted it FAT32, and set it to ACTIVE, then put the DVD in and rebooted. Booting from the DVD went very smooth, looked really promising. Without any problem I made it to the install program, and opened disk utilities there. My SATA drive was shown on the left, everything looked fine. But... when I selected my OSX partition and clicked "erase", the following error showed up: "Disk needs an activating point". Allthough I had set it to active, the disk profile said it wasn't... Clicking the 'activate' button always resulted in an "activation failed" error. So I went through all the system profile windows, everything was nicely detected (even built-in webcam and bluetooth!) except for the Wi-Fi. My harddisk showed no errors, except about the activation point... I also tried the disk-first aid and repairing functions, but they all said that the disk didn't need to be repaired. I tried rebooting from a bootable CD (Ultimate bootable CD) to set the active partition from there, but that did not help. I'd like to kindly ask if anyone here knows what I could do about this... I'm a bit of a Newbie here, hope it is not a silly question. Kind Regards, George Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26533-1047-installation-im-stuck/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
King George Posted September 2, 2006 Author Share Posted September 2, 2006 My hard disk is partitioned like this: 1 primary recovery partition (hidden) 2 primary Win XP partition NTFS(60 GB) 3 logical storage partition NTFS(70 GB) 4 primary OSX-intended partition FAT32 (10GB) All I could make from my search was that the primary partition maybe should not be after a logical partition. Could this be the problem here? I seem to be unable to move the partition between the primary and logical ones... Is there someone who knows what to do in a situation like this? Thank you very much, George Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26533-1047-installation-im-stuck/#findComment-179933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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