lotharius Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 (edited) Ok I've tried every possible way to partition a part of my HDD but when I select that Disk Utility during installation, then it only detects my primary NTFS Windows XP partition. It doesn't detect the other partition wether it is FAT32 or unformated drive or just free space (and all of those versions with primary and logical drive option). Only thing that I haven't tried yet, is setting the partiton to active partition, cause I am afraid that in case it doesn't work, I can't boot back to Windows either. The version of OS X i'm tryng to install is Mac.OS.X.Tiger.10.4.6.X86-HOTiSO. I wrote it on a DVD with minimal speed possible and also run the data verification, so I don't think that it's the installation disks fault. The HDD that I'm using is a Maxtor 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Ultra-ATA/133. Besides the detection problem the Disk Utility tool says that the HDD is only 128GB large, but actually the NTFS part. is already 149GB, so it even detects the size faultily. My PC specs: Athlon 64 3000+ s754 ABIT KV8Pro mobo with K8T800 chip 1,5GB RAM 6600GT AGP 160GB ATA HDD Edited March 3, 2007 by lotharius Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin.a Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 The 128GB is a limitation of the driver that is communicating with your harddisk. A silly one if you ask me. It was back in the windows 98 days when you had to use a "HD enabler" for drives over 128gb. anyway, I digress. Is the partition at the beginning or end of the drive? I have encountered similar problems if the partition is at the end of the drive. If you can, shift your NTFS partition to the end of the drive and put your HFS+ at the beginning. Keep me posted on what happens. I'll do my best to help further. After all, I'm a geek. It's what I do :-) -C. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/#findComment-315805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotharius Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 (edited) Ok thank you for the reply. I thought also the HD size might be limited by the installation. But I got one question, how can I move a partition from the end to beginning of the drive. I got that Partition Magic program installed, so if there's away to do it with that, then tell me or if there's an other programm then tell me the name. Edited March 3, 2007 by lotharius Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/#findComment-315816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin.a Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Yes, I do believe you can do it with partition magic. I don't recall exactly how but the function should be called something like move partition. Tell partition magic you want to move it to the end of the drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/#findComment-315908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noptuno Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Is in the second options window at the left of partition magic, should say Move/Change Partition or Change/Move Partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/#findComment-315922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotharius Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 Ok I found that, but I got a couple of questions about it. Below the slider it says: This partition crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary and may not be bootable (this is the default setting of partition HERE ) It is possible to move the partition, but then it says it will not be bootable LINK It is also possible to shrink the partition from the other end LINK And for the G:\ partition it already says that because it starts beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary, it will not be bootale. Although the part were now G is on, was a Kubuntu partition before and it booted up just fine. So what should I do with it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/#findComment-316087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotharius Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 up! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44143-cant-detect-partition/#findComment-317803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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