xx66stangxx Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Ok so since NTFS format isn't compatible to Apple you must use HFS+ format right? well my system is AMD 6000+x2 Vista x64 and programs like Partitionmagic aren't compatible with my system build. So my question is can I format my spare Serial ATA harddrive to an FAT32 format then run the setup for OSX86 and Partition the harddrive with the Drive Utility? I ask this because I tried partitioning my harddrive and I get an error from the utitlity. Thanks, Danny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windows RG Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 the errors arent because of the format type? i format ntfs all the time with disk utility... FAT32 isnt good cuz it only supports 32 gb of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 oh, so how can I install OSX86 then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windows RG Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 if your chipset isnt supported then you dont. so what chipset do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 NVIDIA SPP190 (C51XE) SSE3 and I am running tub_Osx10410_AMDVM_SSE3 disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snerler Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 You might have to install to an IDE drive, thats what i have to do on my AMD system. But I thought i heard that you DO need a FAT32 partion to be able to use disk utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 oh ok, where did you get your IDE Drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 oh ok, where did you get your IDE Drive? . . IDE = 'parallel ATA' = PATA. You should have little trouble in finding a PATA HDD from any number of retail or online vendors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 WindowsRG wrote: the errors arent because of the format type? i format ntfs all the time with disk utility... FAT32 isnt good cuz it only supports 32 gb of space. My OSx86 PC has an 80GB Hard Drive with two partitions (40GB FAT32 and 40GB Apple Extended Journaled). How is it possible that my FAT32 partition is larger than 32GB? --danyel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 haha yeah so I found a 40gb hdd in my spare computer and I was going to reformatt it to fat32 with the windows xp install disk but it was already in fat32 format :-) so I put in the mac disk and now it's installing right now so soon to be: Amd 6000+x2 4gb ram 8800gts NVIDIDA overclocked, about 800gb worth of storage and Windows Vistax64/OSX86 :-) thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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