zam Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Hi, I got myself a nice new Seagate 7200.11 1TB hard disk, and tried to install Leopard on it. The problem was that Disk Utility didn't want to create a new MBR partition table unless I divided the disk into many smaller partitions. 3 partitions of about 300GB worked ok, but when I tried to create just one 1TB partition, Disk Utility just jammed without any error message and resulted in a non-mountable unnamed disk. I have tried this with several versions of disk utility, from the old developers-only intel os x versions to 10.4.8-11 and leopard. Is this supposed to be happening? I would be very happy indeed if I could use all of the disk as just one partition, that would result in a lot less wasted space in the future... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68587-maximum-partition-size-for-mbr-disk-in-disk-utility/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
voiperster Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Hey Zam, try creating the partition before running the installer with the gparted live cd (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68587-maximum-partition-size-for-mbr-disk-in-disk-utility/#findComment-487941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatriad Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 hello, I am having the same problems with the disk utility, have you figured out any solution to this? I have tried to format two drives, one a 750 WD and the other a 750GB Seagate. I am using the disk utility in kalyway 10.4.10. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68587-maximum-partition-size-for-mbr-disk-in-disk-utility/#findComment-519774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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