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[RuffusJones]

OK so everything goes well untill i have to select a destination to install osx 10.4.6. IM using a samsung stata hdd...should i have formated a partion? to fat32? any ideas would help

[Rammjet]

You should have already created a partition for OSX.

 

Are you selecting Disk Utility in the Utilities menu and erasing (formatting) the partition as MacOS Extended Journaled?

 

OSX only supports Intel and VIA SATA controllers. If your motherboard has a different SATA controller chip, then OSX probably won't work with it. In that case get a PATA drive. A 20 GB PATA drive can be found for next to nothing.

[the_defiant]

Go to disk utility and make a new mac os partition (just select the standard one partition partitioning scheme) and then click format.

If you don't know how, then you should better look it up on google or something. It's pretty easy, you can just go to the Utilities menu, then click the disk utility and format that drive to journalised HFS+.

[bgrau]

Boot with an xp boot disk, and follow these steps:

 

In case u are in xp

Now go to the ‘Start Menu’ and click on ‘Run’. Type cmd and hit ‘Enter’ to open a command prompt. Type the following, line by line, and at the end of each line press ‘Enter’:

 

otherwise at the command prompt in R mode booting from xp boot cd:

diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

create partition primary id=AF

list disk

select disk 0

list partition

select partition 2

active

exit

exit

 

Hint: Here is an explanation of what you just did:

 

diskpart:

A Windows command line application that allows making changes to HD and partitions

list disk:

Will list the currently installed HDs on your PC

select disk 0:

Command that will select the disk you resized

create partition primary id=AF:

Command that will format the free space on the selected disk

list disk:

Will list the currently installed HDs on your PC

select disk 0:

Command that will select the disk you resized

list partition:

Command that will list all partitions on current disk

select partition 2:

Command that will select Partition 2 Unknown

active:

Command that will make Partition 2 Unknown the active partition, meaning PC will boot automatically to the OS installed there

exit:

Command that will close the diskpart application and then the command prompt window

 

Put JaS 10.4.8 DVD in the DVD Drive and turn off your PC