Waxer Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I'm not a noob and have had OSX86 running on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop before, triple booting with Windows XP & Ubuntu. I'm always tinkering snd have had several builds of Vista/Linux on there, and have decided to go back to the os x86/win xp pro/ubuntu setup. The last time I did this, OS X was on 10.4.4, and I had no problems getting the triple boot. When I try to install OS X now, I get a disk input/output error in disk utility. I've tried using the original DVD (10.4.4) I had and get the same thing...I have no idea what is happening, I've used the Hitachi tool to check the drive, it's fine, I've used avery HDD tool you can imagine on Hiren's boot disk to make sure it's OK, and everything is fine. I've just used GParted live CD to partition it again in preparation and I have now stopped to see if I get a response in here... I shouldn't have to do any of this, as I was going to just do it the easy way and use the entire disk for OS X...I'm installing from the JAS 10.4.8 AMD & Intel SSE2 & SSE3 image. Disk utility sees my internal hard drive, I try to erase it and format it as Mac extended, then I get the error. Totally wierd...can anyone else help? Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tender Bronson Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I am getting this error as well. I had 10.4.3 installed on the machine no problem. I tried installing JaS 10.4.8, and it worked (sort of) the first time around. I erased my HD without partitioning it, so I ended up with a machine that wouldn't even POST unless I took the HD out of the machine. I reformatted the HD on a P3 I had kicking around, but now I cannot create a partition. I am getting "Input/output error". Any help would be great. Thanks, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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