henry.oswald Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Hey I’m slowly getting this installed! I’ve done a fair amount of searching but can not find an answer so ill ask: simply put when I’m trying to install the computer can not see any disk to install onto, I had a disk show up earlier for some reason (which has my data on it and is formatted to fat 32) I didn’t want to use that one so I quit vmware and started to fiddle but the hard disk I want to install on will not show up and for some reason the disk I don’t want to install on doesn’t show either anymore!?!? any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troisd Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Installer can only use HFS/HFS+ partitions. During installation, select Disk Utility frommenu bar and create a HFS+ partition for installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Quite a simple fix: 1) download and install Partition Magic 2) create desired size partition UNFORMATTED and UNALLOCATED. 3) tell your installation to install on this partition and make it HDFS+ 4) remember the disk must be a PRIMARY partition See if that works for ya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 2) create desired size partition UNFORMATTED and UNALLOCATED. 3) tell your installation to install on this partition and make it HDFS+ You cannot install OSX to an unformatted and unallocated partition. You must run Disk Utility as the first step of the installation and format (erase) the partition as HFS+ (MacOS Extended Journaled). Frequently, Disk Utility generally cannot see an unallocated partition and sometimes cannot see an unformatted partition. It is safer to format the partition as FAT32 after creating it and then formatting it to HFS+ during the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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