Pandanl Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I have installed Windows Xp at the instal screen i selected 130GB from my 250GB harddisk PATA and left the other space empty. So in windows maked from the empty space a partition with NTFS and no letter assigned, Booted from the dvd but in the disk utility i saw only my Winxp partition but no mac partition and above the name of my winxp partition i saw only 129GB SAMSUNG SP2504C then i tried all kind of stuff made the partition in windows FAT32,No formatting, an assigned letter but nothing helped what is the problem mac osx worked before buti exedently overwrited my winxp at the install of mac osx. specs AMD Athlon AM2 4000+ 2,6Ghz MSI K9N Ultra Geforce 7900GS 600/XXX Samsung SP2504C (PATA) Samsung SP2514N (SATA) TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandanl Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 does no one knows the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniel09 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 dude you Must format/Erase your selected partition on your HD again upon installing the osx86 its under the Utilities>disk utilities when installing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandanl Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 if u read what i said in the first post you can see that in disk utility the partition did not show up in the list only my winxp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeboo Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 did you try DISKPART? (id=af) - from Xp cmd line: (use only primary partitions - !this is valid if you'll install osx on 1st disk, 2nd partition - google it) DISKPART> Select disk 1 DISKPART> Select partition 2 DISKPART> Delete partition DISKPART> create partition primary id=af DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB * Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB DISKPART> Exit - on the next osx install, partition will be seen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandanl Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 IF i do that how big is the second partition? or how can i set the size of the partition? thanks for you'r help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandanl Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 Mac OSX install says my harddisk is 130GB but it is 250GB how can i fix it so it says its 250gb ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeboo Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 130 GB is the partition size and not the disk. (osx-install shows only those partitions to be used). don't be afraid, it doesn't write ntfs partition (xp) and if it you'll loose the xp boot loader, you still can run the xpcd recovery consolle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jassalmithu Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 i understand the prob and is now in a similar dilemma. i cant create any partitions on my usb drive thru installer, and the already created raw partition are not formatted/erased correctly in disk utility and installer then give me no option where i can install my files on. please anybody cud give me an option where i cud get a utility thru which i cud format mac os x filesystem in windows xp/vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeboo Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 i understand the prob and is now in a similar dilemma. i cant create any partitions on my usb drive thru installer, and the already created raw partition are not formatted/erased correctly in disk utility and installer then give me no option where i can install my files on. please anybody cud give me an option where i cud get a utility thru which i cud format mac os x filesystem in windows xp/vista Use Acronis Disk Director 10, format the partition in fat32, then right click on it / Advanced / Change Type / select "0AFh - ChagOs Swap" any demonoid invite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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