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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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