Daninino Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hello Everybody Trying to install OSX86 as a Secondary system on a IBM X40 AKA Multiboot, it is so small that it doesn't have a DVD drive so I'm installing through VMWare. I have 3 partitions 1: XP 2: Should end up being OSX and 3: IBM Recovery Partition. located in that order. I use the second partition as the drive in VMWare, but no matter what I do it ends up with an error: Volume Erase failed Volume Erase failed with the error: Could not write partition map I have tried formatting it as NTFS, Fat32 and not at all, but end up with the same error. I have tried to locate a piece of software that can format the partition as HFS+ but have not been succesfull. I would really like to keep the IBM Rescue partition, which is in the end of the HD, since I cannot reinstall XP without it. Can anybody help me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58022-could-not-write-partition-map/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daninino Posted July 25, 2007 Author Share Posted July 25, 2007 Nevermind I figured it out you just have to choose to use the whole drive and not just the partition in VMWare *DOH* Wished I figured this out before I wasted 4 hours on it yesterday /Daninino Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58022-could-not-write-partition-map/#findComment-414559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daninino Posted July 25, 2007 Author Share Posted July 25, 2007 That apperently corrupts your MBR but a quick MBRFIX with the XP CD and thats history Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58022-could-not-write-partition-map/#findComment-414596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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