Ensei Tankado Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Hi. After numerous tries and failures, I merely managed to get to the "choose your language" page for the OSX installation. At first I tried to boot it with -v but no luck so I booted it with -x this time it works like a charm, but when I reached the destination choice section I stumbled. I tried to go to disk utility but nothing returns. The key is there, I clicked and nothing just returns. (Terminal and the others work fine though) Is it part of the problem of my hard drive? (Because before this I tried to repartition this with Partition Magic, and the HD got messed up and doesn't boot my old system) Should I reformat the HD before installing this? How could I do that? Thank You. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 i have almost the same problem except mine geos to the disk utilty and just hangs on "Gathering Hard disk Information" n jas 10.4.8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/#findComment-494636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ensei Tankado Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 ok. now I got my drive erased. and it's installing, but the screen got stuck at 8%. mouse is not working. any help? :[ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/#findComment-494668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 how did you get disk utility to start Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/#findComment-495146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shun Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 i think i am having the exact same problem that you are. i hope you find a way to fix it. if i find a way to fix this problem i will let you know. when i try to install, it wont let me select a volume to install it to. it doesn't freeze, but it wont let me start installing it. and when i click on the disk utility it says that there is an error with my hard drive or something like that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/#findComment-495176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 shun almost the same with me but it just hangs on disk utility at "Gethering disk information" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/#findComment-495682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shun Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 maybe its the version of os x that you have? this is how i fixed my problem. i went to utility then disk utility then i selected the partition that i wanted to install mac on. then i clicked the erease tab, and seleced erease journeled and let it erease. when it finished, i closed it and was able to install mac. but after i did that, when i tried to boot it i got this error mesage "hfs+ partition error" im not sure if its releated to that but i think there is fix for that error too. i hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/69743-disk-utility-does-not-show-up-now-stucking-at-8-base-system-part-1/#findComment-501720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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