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Hi,

 

I have already set up a partition in vista and then set that partition as my primary drive.

 

I then restart with the jas dvd in the drive and this all boots up well, I get to the language screen and all is working, then to the introduction screen.

 

After this it gets to the select a destination screen and of course theres nothing there, so I then go to the utilities tab and then Disk Utility. When this loads up there is just the DVD showing up.

 

I am very confused and have searched this forum and used many search engines trying to find a solution.

 

Thanks for your help in advance :)

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Just wanted to add some more info:

 

My hard drive is an ATA drive 120GB

 

My Partitions are as follows:

(vista) C: 90GB > NTFS

(vista Recovery) D: 10GB > NTFS

(Mac OS) F: 20GB > FAT32

 

My Laptop specs are:

AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-58 (dual core 1.9ghz) Supports SSE, SSE2 & SSE3

2GB Ram

120GB Hard Drive.

 

Anything else you might need to knnow just tell me

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When you set up the partition in Vista, what command did you use in diskpart? Did you use diskpart??

 

I see that you formatted it as FAT32, which is not recognised in Mac, Erase you partition, and do this:

 

 

Start > Run > Diskpart

 

type: select disk=0

type: list partition

Find the 20GB FAT32 Partition and remember the partition number (either 1, 2 or 3)

Now type: select partition=(The number above)

"Partition X is now the selected partition."

Now type: delete partition (make sure there is nothing important on the disk!!)

It should say "Command successful" or something

Now, type: create partition primary id=af

Command completed or created message...

 

Now the install dvd should find you drive, but remember to open disk utility and format it to a HFS + (journaled) partition.

 

Good Luck!!

 

Andrew

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hi,

 

tried this but no luck :)

 

Not sure what to do now if i was to install it to a usb hard drive would i then be able to install patch and then transfer the install to my partitioned drive? (sorry for the noob question)

 

 

 

That sounds extremly complicated... lol

 

Can you just put a hard drive into your computer box and install onto that..? It is so easy...

 

When you say 'tried this with no luck' , where did the 'no luck' happen..? Did you get the existing partition erased..? If you want step-by-step, I have MSN + Gtalk ...

 

-Andrew

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Hi,

 

I have already set up a partition in vista and then set that partition as my primary drive.

 

I then restart with the jas dvd in the drive and this all boots up well, I get to the language screen and all is working, then to the introduction screen.

 

After this it gets to the select a destination screen and of course theres nothing there, so I then go to the utilities tab and then Disk Utility. When this loads up there is just the DVD showing up.

 

I am very confused and have searched this forum and used many search engines trying to find a solution.

 

Thanks for your help in advance :(

 

 

Sorry to hear that

I had the same problem a few days ago

Here is how I solved it, with my friend's help:

Set your hard drive as the Second Master device

Set your CD/DVD Driver as the Second Slave device

Then you should see the hard driver in the Disk Utilities

If that doesn't work, just let me know

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Hi I cannot seem to find my HDD either and i read your comment an thought it might work till i realized that i am using a Laptop and cannot change my slave options. I tried changing the boot order in bios but that still had no effect. I know the HDD is supported and works because i had a successfull install using the same HDD externally with an adapter;as soon as i put it in my computer , though, i got the little "no smoking" looking sign at the bootup apple screen.

 

I am wondering if you could help me make my HDD visible so that i know i would have a successfull install after doing so.

Thanx

 

Sorry to hear that

I had the same problem a few days ago

Here is how I solved it, with my friend's help:

Set your hard drive as the Second Master device

Set your CD/DVD Driver as the Second Slave device

Then you should see the hard driver in the Disk Utilities

If that doesn't work, just let me know

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Hi,

 

I have already set up a partition in vista and then set that partition as my primary drive.

 

I then restart with the jas dvd in the drive and this all boots up well, I get to the language screen and all is working, then to the introduction screen.

 

After this it gets to the select a destination screen and of course theres nothing there, so I then go to the utilities tab and then Disk Utility. When this loads up there is just the DVD showing up.

 

I am very confused and have searched this forum and used many search engines trying to find a solution.

 

Thanks for your help in advance ;)

 

Try formatting as FAT 32

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Have you found the solution ?

 

I have exactly the same probleme you had.

 

Thanks a lot

 

Nik.

 

 

 

Hi,

 

I have already set up a partition in vista and then set that partition as my primary drive.

 

I then restart with the jas dvd in the drive and this all boots up well, I get to the language screen and all is working, then to the introduction screen.

 

After this it gets to the select a destination screen and of course theres nothing there, so I then go to the utilities tab and then Disk Utility. When this loads up there is just the DVD showing up.

 

I am very confused and have searched this forum and used many search engines trying to find a solution.

 

Thanks for your help in advance :)

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hi,

 

tried this but no luck :(

 

Not sure what to do now if i was to install it to a usb hard drive would i then be able to install patch and then transfer the install to my partitioned drive? (sorry for the noob question)

 

i have the same problem..solution ?

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