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Please, someone help me! I get leopard to load, and the i go to disk utilities to try and partition my harddrive, but ti doesnt work! it gives me the error :

 

Partition Failed

 

Partition Failed with the error:

 

Input/output error

 

 

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? or has anyone had this problem?

 

 

thanks

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Exactly the same error on a 2.5" notebook Samsung 80GB hard drive, in external enclosure. Using Kalyway 10.5.2.

 

I was able to use disk utility to erase the drive, but now I can't format it for installation.

 

edit: I fixed it. Stuck the drive in a XP machine, initialized the disk, created a partition but did not format it nor assign a drive letter. Did some more fiddling in Disk Utility and now it's installing...

Guess I spoke too soon. I tried to get my video card working, screwed something up and then ended up reinstalling Kalyway... now I can't get past the input/output error no matter what I do.

 

Have tried searching here / Google for past few hours :(

 

Probably problem with either my notebook harddisk or the USB enclosure chipset?

 

PS. Could I format my drive in Windows so that it is ready for installation for Leopard right away?

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