BitBaXeMan Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Hey guys, I've been reading tons and tons of guides, and I hear about a lot of troubles with sata drives. I'm wondering if thats probably whats going on with me. I have set aside about 100gigs for my osx 1.4.9 and set it as primary and active, but when using disk utility on the mac install disk, it tells me I have insufficient privileges when I try to erase my Mac volume. Is this something you can fix with the terminal? AMD sse3 Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe If you need any further information, let me know. I'm stumped, and i've been tryin this for a couple days Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Have you tried the repair permissions button in disk utility. Can disk utility actually see the SATA drive? if so then that should not be a problem, if it can see it then there really should be no problem with SATA. The only issue with drives i had was it not being able to erase it and just saying it had failed, i had to wipe the whole drive clean and let disk utility set up its partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-567935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 One of the 10.4.9 DVd came with both ASR and diskutil, if the one doesn't do the job, most of the time ASR will. If for some or other reason you used ASR to create a GUID or MBR partition, 80% of the time diskutil wont remove it??(strange) so use ASR then... SticMAN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-567939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitBaXeMan Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Wow, I appreciate the fast response. Unfortunately, this is will be my first experience with osx so I'm not completely familiar with moving around yet. I'm gonna keep tinkering and I'll look for anything mentioning repairing permissions. edit:I can't find anything but diskutil on my install disc... and it seems to see my sata drive because it's on the left in diskutil, it's just greyed out. I right click on it and hit first aid looking for "repair permissions" but the buttons are all unavailable. The only option seems using the partition feature, except that it warns that both volumes will be wiped, and I don't want that. I know I must be missing something simple... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-567946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kourosh Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I had a big problem with this when I installed tiger. I blamed bad dvd burns, as both tubgirl and uphuck wouldn't erase volumes. So I used a vmware method to install, took a while, but it works fine now. I thought it might be because of the sata driver for nforce4, but after a vmware install, it booted up and works perfect..ish, if you ignore that sleep and restart don't work. Im now attempting leopard... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-567975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitBaXeMan Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Man... just when I think I've read all the guides I need, I get a whole new tactic to try. I have stayed away from all the vmware based installs because I wanted to keep it simple Leopard is downloading right now, but I'm stuck at 0.178 availability I already tried a different Leopard install, but it didn't work either. Never even managed to load into the installer all the way. Right after you see all that text after selecting verbose mode, and right as the screen changed it always reboots my computer... I read somewhere that this was a symptom of sata problems too, is that possible? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-567990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 there is always the option of booting up with a gparted live cd and formatting the partition u want to use as an NTFS volume that way disk utility will see it and allow you to erase it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-569365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea-Wolf Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 The only issue with drives i had was it not being able to erase it and just saying it had failed, i had to wipe the whole drive clean and let disk utility set up its partitions. I've been struggling with this same problem. Haven't had any success solving it though. I hope I don't have to resort to wiping the whole thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-570712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitBaXeMan Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 Heh, I was using an intel only copy... I downloaded an amd leopard disk and now I've got it installed, I just have to get my PS\2 mouse and keyboard to function. Baby steps, heh. I get a little bit further with every reboot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-570717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kourosh Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80156-osx-installer-cant-erase-volume/#findComment-572899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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