ryanf Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I have been trying to install Mac OS 10.4.6 HOTiSO for some time now. The trick is that I am trying to triple boot with OS comming after XP and Ubuntu. There is no data on the 100gb drive so I have tried many different things. It seems my steps to installing all three OS's are correct only when I use the disk utility to format the HFS+ partition I get the following error: "Volume erase failed with the following error : Cannot read the partition map. " I have tried several things to solve this problem but to no avail. I thought maybe the partition was not active so I used diskpart under windows to set it to active. I tried fdisk under the Mac OS terminal but could not find where the error lies. I am trying to partition from FAT32 to HFS+ with the Disk Utility. Thanks for you help, Ryan Fe'rran Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32327-cannot-read-partition-map/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanf Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 I set up the partitions with GParted, should I have used anything else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32327-cannot-read-partition-map/#findComment-227601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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