Da Smoove Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First off I would like to say this is a very nice forum. I am running on an Athlon 64 X2 I recently got my hands on the file "Leopard-AMD-10.5.1.iso". The steps I took up to this current point: 1. Burn to DVD r. 2. Created 35gb FAT32 partition. 3. Booted up the disk. 4. Utilities - Disk Utility. Now, it usually takes 10 minutes to load, once it does it shows my sata HDD and an irrelevant partition I have. Once I select something the apple loading cursor appears. I have waited half hour, it just sits there spinning, I have tried rebooting numerous amounts of times but of to no avail. The question is: Should I just get a different disc, or is there a way to fix this? Thank you in advanced ~ Da Smoove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Smoove Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 By the way, I am using the new Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD SSE2/SSE3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 What kind of motherboard and SATA controller are you using? That would be my first guess as to why its not working. If you have an older IDE hard drive I would suggest trying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Smoove Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 ASUS A8M2N-LA is my Motherboard. 1 serial ATA-150 disk drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 ASUS A8M2N-LA is my Motherboard.1 serial ATA-150 disk drive. I have no first hand experience with that motherboard, but it really does sound like an issue writing to the SATA drive. Try a different hard drive if you can, external or IDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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