dying4004 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 guys i need a help. My Laptop is HP 6b02tx with i5 2430M, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd. I have trying to install SL, Lion and ML and everytime installation fails with error processing data: input/output error. i have tried the following boot flags. -v -cpus=1 busratio=24 pcirootuid=1 arch=i386. I tried different combinations of flags but same issue everytime. i have tried internal hdd and usb hdd and still same issue. any idea what might be the issue? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 generally this would be a sign of a failing hard drive, can you post a screen shot showing what it says before that? Damaged or corrupt installer image file can also cause same problem. Reformat your entire USB, not just erase or reformat partition and then try again. If your able to do this from a Mac, also choose secure erase and set slider one notch from the left, it will do a zero write and flag any bad blocks as not writable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dying4004 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 generally this would be a sign of a failing hard drive, can you post a screen shot showing what it says before that? Damaged or corrupt installer image file can also cause same problem. Reformat your entire USB, not just erase or reformat partition and then try again. If your able to do this from a Mac, also choose secure erase and set slider one notch from the left, it will do a zero write and flag any bad blocks as not writable its definitely not a hdd issue as i have tried laptop's internal hdd and 3 external hdd and these 4 hdd's are working just fine and 1 of them i bought yesterday just for osx. and tried 4 different distros burned with 3x speed. and same issue every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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