HumanTorch Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 hi i just used acronis disk director to create an 8 gb partition of space, but when it asked for a format i just left it as none i restarted and booted from the uphuck disk, everything went fine, until it got to the part in the installer where it says choose destination i think nothign showed up, so i started the disk utility from the cd and it showed the 8gb partition and i tried to erase and format to a mac extended (journaled) format, but it says something like "needs a mount point" when i select the 8gb partition and click mount at the top nothing happens i think its cus the partition has no format right now, so im going to format it into a certain file system, but i dont know which one to do any advice, the options acronis gives me are ntfs, fat, fat32, linux swap, and a couple others i think thanks for your responses Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shigimatsu Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hey, Humantorch, in my experience, format your partition to fat32, that should work with the "erase." If not, get back to me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-413960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanTorch Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 hey man thanks alot, ill try now, if not ill be back in like 15 minutes :)appreciate the speedy response too, didnt want to have to wait till tomorrow im too pumped for osx :)ok so that didnt actually work, it still gives me error messageswhen i hit erase free space, i get something saying no mount pointwhen i hit erase, it says its erasing and formatting to mac extended journaled, but it finishes and nothing has actually changedwhen i hit information about the partition i get these detailsName: diskOs3Typer: VolumeDisk Identifier: diskOs3Mount Point: Not Mountedconnection bus: atawriteable: yesowners enabled: nocan turn owners off: nocan be formatted: nobootable: nosupports journaling: nojournaled: noi think the problem is, that it is not mountedcan anyone help me out please Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-413961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hey, Humantorch, in my experience, format your partition to fat32, that should work with the "erase." If not, get back to me. OS X can read and write to FAT32 file system. This therefore means when you get to the Disk Utilities section of the installation, it will actually see the 8GB FAT32 partition and will also be able to format that again to HFS+ extended. I normally use diskpart in Windows. Not sure what that method formats the partition initially to but OS X is also able to read that format. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-413979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanTorch Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 what would be wrong then, because it does not see the space at all and wont erase it it keeps saying in the bottom left in disk utility that the partition is "not mounted" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-413993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 what would be wrong then, because it does not see the space at alland wont erase it it keeps saying in the bottom left in disk utility that the partition is "not mounted" Have you tried formatting it again with acronis but this time to FAT32? Do that and then try the installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-413999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanTorch Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 yes ive tried using completely unformatted free space fat32 primary partition and linux swap format all three show up as a grey partition in disk utility, when i click mount they dont mount, when i hit erase it acts like its doing it with the progress bar in the bottom right, but then it goes back to disk utility screen and again its unmounted still in old format and nothing has changed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-414002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I can't say why it's not working Sorry. Never been in that situation. All I can suggest is maybe you try a different format method. The diskpart method. It might be a waste of time but then again you never know. I managed to find an old post I made ages ago of it so here you go. I would delete the partition you tried to format first and then create a partition in the unpartitioned space using the diskpart method. Hope it works. Best of luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-414009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanTorch Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 alright ill try it asap getting a bit tired of having to keep bootin from dvd as it takes long enough im using uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 are there any issues with this installer? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-414012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanTorch Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 GREAT news ace player, it worked perfectly using that link u gave me however now i can dual boot with darwin (im using my xp right now), when i boot to os x it hangs at the boot screen any ideas what i can do to fix this thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57961-partition-question/#findComment-414026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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