Evostance Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Ok so I bought a new 160gb SATA hard drive and was going to install osx on it as a test run before i formatted it for windows Anyway, boots into install fine. Says select hard drive. Now there isnt any harddrive ther but I was expecting that So I go into disk utility and select my hard drive. Now correct me if im wrong 1) Select harddrive 2) Select it as partition 1 3) Choose format as Mac osx journal 4) Click options 5) Choose GUID format 6) And format I left it running for about 15minutes but it still hadn't formatted. It was a blank hard drive so I dont get why it was taking so long Am I doing this correct? or should I do something in the bios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Under security is the topmost option selected? It should be something alsong the lines of quick format, and least secure (not that theres any data on it) It could also be becaause it is SATA. I know sometimes SATA can be a riyal pain. Hope it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Sorry you lost me there. I just went into disk utility. Right clicked on my hard drive and click partition. Then named it, clicked options, set it as GUID and click format Is this right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 that's all good, but before you click format, click on security and make sure the top option is selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Yep done that. Left it formatting for half an hour...nothing. If im being honest I dont think my PC was doing anything. No HDD light, no noise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I'm stumped. Does anyone out there know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 first.. if you have already an mbr partition you cant just format another one in guid partition skeme.... use diskpart as described in several guides to prepare a suitable partition for macos and then use disk util to format it second, are you sure the disk itself is seen as 160gb capable in macos? if you see a wrong value it means you have problems with lba recognition and there's no fix for that third, in top menus thare should be something to see an activity log or something like that, maybe you can see something usefull to troubleshot the issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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