twisted_matt Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I downloaded a homebrew version of leopard for AMD chipset, I boot off the CD in MS-DOS, spins, brings up Leopard GUI, I go to disc managment and format to journaled and it says preparing and doesn't go further than there (left it once for 3 hours), which won't allow an install. I've tried this on two seperate SATA drives and still the same "preparing disc" Has anyone got any suggestions or know of any tools to format to HFS within Vista? Thanks in advance, Matt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schulz Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Try messing up with your sata options in the bios... It may help. If anything else works, you could try gparted live cd to make the partitions, I've particularly never used this metod, but i've heard good things from another people. Or use my favourite method, install vmware in windows, setup to use an internal hdd and make it persistent. It helps installing in my jmicron sata controller. Hope it helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-583846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelvers Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I downloaded Hiren's Boot CD from a bittorrent and burnt the iso image using Nero. I restarted my pc and booted with it in the dvd drive. I chose the paragon partitioner program and created a fat32 partition for leo. Yes, FAT32. I exited out of there and rebooted with my copy of leopard osx86. I then went straight to the disc utility and erased my newly created partition so it was now a Mac Extended Journaled partition. I then proceded to install leopard there . I tried using gparted livecd first, but I didn't have any luck getting the leo disk utility to work with that partition. I should mention that my setup is with an IDE harddrive and a SATA DVD burner. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-583918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted_matt Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thanks i'll try the HIRENS bootdisc. THE VMware and Gparted didn't work with me, it's all fun... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-583977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted_matt Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 The FAT32 i did on Hiren's went ok, but stuck in the Leopard disc and came back straight away under disk utility "error drive busy" Anyone experienced this before or has any suggestions!? Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-584528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted_matt Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 *bump* Pls help. Spent all day trying to look up help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-584896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamb0ne Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 HEY!! I GOT THE SAME PROBLEM AS U. HOW DID YOU FORMAT IT WITH HIRENS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-584927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted_matt Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 There's a partitioning tool on there called "paragon partitioner", although it didn't work with me. Are you running on a SATA drive!?/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-584960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted_matt Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Found out what the problem is. Leopard doesn't like old SATA drives, I installed on an IDE driver and it installed with no problem. Now i've got a problem with trying to get it to boot. lol. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-585604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripleboot Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Seems to be allot of peoples problem after installing. Getting it to boot back up to finish installing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82219-format-to-hfs-error/#findComment-585670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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