Fuzz Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I have installed OS on this computer many times before with no problems but this time I got an error that makes me go crazy! I partioned 79 GB to FAT32 and tried to convert it to hfs+ with disk utility in setup but it won't work! I get the error "Volume Erase failed with the error: could not read partion map" is there any way to fix this? the only thing that changed in my hardware is that I added a X1600 (ATI) Graphics card and a firewire card and I don't think that has anything to do with it. plz help me! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
powrslave Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Are you partitioning it first? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/#findComment-263750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 I partition it to FAt32 in windows and then normaly I partition it in the setup of mac os x ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/#findComment-263751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powrslave Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 why aren't you just parting it in diskutil? click on the disk then click on partition do it...wipe it out if this isn't working out for you kill it in windows...why are you putting FAT32 on it when you want it to be hfs anyway? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/#findComment-263754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 why aren't you just parting it in diskutil? If that would work i would have never made this post because thats what this post is about !it is not working! and I partition it to Fat32 because I need a partition i can convert to hfs+ and that does not work in windows :censored2: :censored2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/#findComment-263762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powrslave Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Why are you formatting it as FAT32 in windows? Just blow the partitions away and make a big partition in diskutil. then format it as hfs why are you playing with FAT32? You don't need to convert anything good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/#findComment-263773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zes Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 now i´m trying ti install osx86 and will try to convert a fat32 partition to a hfs+ partition....., i don´t have error message, simply disk utility don´t convert it, nothing more....?¿ (10.4.8) following step... i run XP,+ Pmanager, and check that disk utility from macos has formated the partition from fat32 to unformatted, but last news from macos disk utility was a fat32 partition, perhaps..... following step... boot again macos dvd, let me see what disk utility says about that partition, the same situation...... .... with partition magic create a second (first is for XP) primary partition that second partition "without format" , i change my partition table and be sure only have 2 primaries partition before using macos disk utility (one NTFS for XP and other "without format" partition) check how many primaries partition do you have on the disc, think about macos disk utility will create a hfs+ PRIMARY partition, and if you have more than two primaries partitions before the installation, disk utility won´t create any hfs+ partition. i´m not sure if that is exactly, but following that, now i´m installing after creating a hfs+ partition., good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37089-cant-partion-to-hfs-when-running-setup-plz-help/#findComment-263795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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